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Random, as it suggests!
There is a coffee shop culture, you might not realise that if you are a grab and go kind of person, but I can assure you that if you are “get a cup and plan to sit and work for a few hours” type person it’s a whole different ball game. Can you work in a coffee shop all day? Good question, let’s find out shall we? 7.13am I am
. This is one of those linkies that I love. And last year I joined in a couple of times but never felt that I could show the whole of our garden. Bits of it were okay to photograph but mostly our garden is neglected. I am not by any stretch of the imagination green fingered. And even if I were I just don’t have the time.
for myself and a request for votes. Yes, it is that time of year again. The Oscars have been and gone, the BAFTAs are done and dusted and now it is all down to the BiBS: The Brilliance in Blogging Awards. The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed that over there on the right look…. up there. There is a new badge asking for votes in the Brilliance
. If you know me you will know I have a middle name. If you know me well you know it begins with an A. It is only if you know me really well, call me mum, or are related to me that you will know what it actually is. This is going to be one of those blog posts that waffles a bit before it gets to the point,
. Not only do I love reading fiction but I love reading recipe books too, from cover to cover like a novel. I can’t resist buying them too when I see them on special offer, though I already have a cupboard groaning under the weight of them all. This month though I have found myself looking through some fab books so I thought I would share. The slow cooker
. Coventry grew up around a tree belonging to Cofa, hence its eventual name. In 1043 Leofric, the local Earl and husband to Lady Godiva, founded a Benedictine monastery there – and the Lady, it is said, rode naked through the town! Local industries included dyeing wool and silk weaving, before becoming a centre for bicycle and car manufacture in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Badly damaged in WWII,
. The Karcher Window Cleaner is the second product that we have received as part of our Official Karcher Blogger project and like the floor cleaner before it, is just brilliant at what it does. Cleaning windows is my least favourite task. Ever. Like even after emptying the dishwasher or taking the compost to the end of the garden. We have somebody who comes and cleans the outsides
. I have always known that Shoreditch was full of legal street art. I have just never had a chance to get up close and photograph it before. But as we decided we had done the London Coffee Festival on Sunday we went for a wander. The threatened rain had held off and it was shaping up to be a gorgeous afternoon, and none of us wanted to be inside.
. This floored me a bit this week. Ballet shoes hanging in a tree on Fleet High Street. Just hanging from a tree, with no explanation as to why they are there. Who put them there. Or, well, anything. The messages written on the shoes are quite powerful, and I did wonder if this was a cry for help from somebody. Lots of talk about perfection,
. You have no idea how overwhelming the urge to pretend that all the photos I took at RHS Wisley on Saturday were actually from our back garden. But anybody that knows us will see straight through that and know that our garden is far from floral. Don’t get me wrong, I would love it to be, but I know nothing about plants. And have no time to do
. Did you see what I did there? Did you? Did you? Stationary today, stationery yesterday. Some may not know the difference and I am sorry to say those people get the stink eye from me when I see them write things down. I even had to call a pen manufacturer out on it last week when they tweeted about it being National Stationary Week this week, when
. Did you know it was National Stationery week this week? Chances are you didn’t. However, if you are one of a growing number stationery addicts like myself, then you will have seen this week looming large in the calendar and been rubbing your hands together in glee. Safe in the knowledge that our Pinterest and Twitter streams will be full of #NatStatWeek gorgeousness. Today is Pen and Pencil day