gmail, coloured labels
at long last!gmail are now enabling us to select colours to go with our mail labels.finally, i can have all those soap orders marked with BRIGHT RED ATTENTION GRABBING labels!and the etsy/amazon/ebay/itunes purchases can be labelled with a soothing green colour. my inbox is even easier to sort through and it looks like a big [...]
knitting bamboo
sam mclean just sent me some pix of the denim-blue sweater she has just completed for me.it is knitted from bamboo fibre and she says it was beautifully soft and silky.it should be here next week and not a second too soon….it’s starting to get rawwwther chilly up here. click here for sam’s etsy shop.
knitting bamboo
sam mclean just sent me some pix of the denim-blue sweater she has just completed for me.it is knitted from bamboo fibre and she says it was beautifully soft and silky.it should be here next week and not a second too soon….it’s starting to get rawwwther chilly up here. click here for sam’s etsy shop.
how does your garden grow?
we’ve been lucky enough to have the most marvellous gardener coming here one day a week, for the last 2 months.i’ve never really been involved in the gardening process before, so it’s all been quite an eye opener for me.we gave the gardener a free hand and a budget of “whatever you need” and pointed [...]
how does your garden grow?
we’ve been lucky enough to have the most marvellous gardener coming here one day a week, for the last 2 months.i’ve never really been involved in the gardening process before, so it’s all been quite an eye opener for me.we gave the gardener a free hand and a budget of “whatever you need” and pointed [...]
USA presidential elections
is anybody else just COMPLETELY SICK OF the whole excruciatingly protracted, mud-slinging, muck-raking, wildly expensive, corrupt, media-whoring process and LONGING for it all to just be over already? then they can just get down to the real dark and dirty business of rigging the votes.
USA presidential elections
is anybody else just COMPLETELY SICK OF the whole excruciatingly protracted, mud-slinging, muck-raking, wildly expensive, corrupt, media-whoring process and LONGING for it all to just be over already? then they can just get down to the real dark and dirty business of rigging the votes.
soap and waterfalls
some days ago, i posted some images of local waterfalls.my friend, sharon, and i had been out scouting likely soap photo locations for future reference. this morning, verrrrrrrrrrrrry early, we walked back down to the little millstream falls, laden down with camera gear and soap.we didn’t have to wait for the sun…it was just clearing [...]
soap and waterfalls
some days ago, i posted some images of local waterfalls.my friend, sharon, and i had been out scouting likely soap photo locations for future reference. this morning, verrrrrrrrrrrrry early, we walked back down to the little millstream falls, laden down with camera gear and soap.we didn’t have to wait for the sun…it was just clearing [...]
daphne du maurier
i was talking about daphne du maurier with a friend, recently.she had been given a copy of jamaica inn and was deeply into it.she’s in her forties and this is her first du maurier experience.i was horrified….doesn’t EVERY WOMAN read rebecca (and wuthering heights) before she is thirty????apparently not! i was madly in love with [...]
baking: sultana cake
i ripped this recipe right off the interwebz and altered it slightly.it’s fast and easy and it’s very very nice moist cake with wonderful flavaaaa. preheat oven to 175 C.grease and line a cake tin. boil 500g sultanas in 1 cup water, until almost all the liquid has gone.add 250g butter and 1 TBLSP treacle [...]
daphne du maurier
i was talking about daphne du maurier with a friend, recently.she had been given a copy of jamaica inn and was deeply into it.she’s in her forties and this is her first du maurier experience.i was horrified….doesn’t EVERY WOMAN read rebecca (and wuthering heights) before she is thirty????apparently not! i was madly in love with [...]
baking: sultana cake
i ripped this recipe right off the interwebz and altered it slightly.it’s fast and easy and it’s very very nice moist cake with wonderful flavaaaa. preheat oven to 175 C.grease and line a cake tin. boil 500g sultanas in 1 cup water, until almost all the liquid has gone.add 250g butter and 1 TBLSP treacle [...]
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