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Ros and Nick, and Jane, came over for dinner tonight and to eat the meal that I had spent much of the afternoon preparing. I had been tossing up between a roast or aubergine lasagne for a while but in…
Continue readingEmma is off out tonight with the girls from work and so I will be left home alone — or be it with five cats, two fish (and two chickens in the garden) for company. I’m thinking that tonight will…
Continue readingWe’ve been watching the new series of It’s Not Easy Being Green on BBC2 on Wednesday nights, with updates from the green New House Farm project. Last week, they included a piece on making your own wood-fired clay oven out…
Continue readingHerman has grown. Actually he’s almost doubled in size, though he did get knocked back into shape once I’d given him the first of his daily stirs. Emma is concerned by the illustration drawn over the bottom of the instruction…
Continue readingTowards the end of this afternoon I had a phone call from Emma with a request to bring one of the other cat baskets into work at 6.30. I asked why and she told me not to worry, that it…
Continue reading* The first article title on the page is the name of your band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random * The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 * The third picture, no matter what it…
Continue readingIn revising one of my closing chapters I find that I am missing an important, linking, scene in the action. How the hell did I suppose, when writing, that I could carry my readers with my protagonists from one scene…
Continue readingI’ve cancelled my printing press order. I was sick in the stomach and full of butterflies last night. It’s an expensive purchase, no more expensive than I had expected, and budgeted for out of Grandpa’s inheritance, so I had no…
Continue readingAfter a slightly more expensive (but no less worth it) kitchen than hoped for there is sadly not much left from Grandpa’s small legacy, however I have just ordered the main ‘legacy gift’ to myself â a intaglio etching press…
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