Oh hello late-summer, suddenly you are upon us. Last week I visited my old house to find 5lbs of tomatoes waiting for me. The week before I’d picked only 15oz (I’m using imperial because that’s my bench-top scales) The tomatoes in my own garden are still mostly green, but that’s good really – not too [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Toms!
Posted in Growing on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This one is for Charlotte
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Because Charlotte sent me that t-shirt in the post a year ago and I didn’t wear it. And she got a little bit cross! But you see Charlotte, I’m not very good at wearing pale blue things… until the perfect skirt comes hopping out of the Salvation Army with me… Oh, did I happen to [...]
Sewing Corner!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Since we moved, I no longer have a designated sewing room. But I’m not complaining because I have a whole corner to myself in our sleep-out! It has white walls (not ghastly wallpaper) but a lot of dead ants falling out of the rafters. And I have an imperative to keep it tidy as Clementine [...]
Dress pattern proves its worth
Posted in Sewing on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday I dusted off a dress I don’t wear much for work – because I had nothing else clean enough or ironed enough to wear to work and it was 6am. Fortunately, even if I’ve ironed the collar of this dress it still sticks up funny, so I wasn’t too worried about that… I [...]
