…thankfully the hacker’s spree of havoc-making is over and I have everything back in my control. I can’t believe how massively frightening and horrible the whole experience of having someone hijack my account was. I will post some of the links that really helped me in case this happens to anyone else when I feel […]
My email address – the one I have been using for nearly 10 years – has been hacked and I can’t access any of my emails, or any of the files or messages I have been storing there. I signed up when I was a lot younger and wilder. All subsequent, more respectable, email accounts […]
I am currently experimenting with online swapping. My first swap involved Postcards on the theme of ‘People.’ I don’t want to give too much away here but I do enjoy that an official ‘Postcard’ stamp can be purchased from Royal Mail ensuring correct postage for any postcard, traveling anywhere on the globe.
It has been a slow and frustrating week involving wormwood killer in the eye, the cutting of the hands upon glass, the spectacular smashing of another piece of glass by a tile-cutter, (very bad idea to introduce the two to each other) some substance reactions resulting in tacky-for-days ick on the windowsills and some major […]
Is that a J Cloth on my head? Have my adventures in washing-up taken me to new levels of fashion strangeness? Or is it simply that I need something to protect my hair while I paint The Newly Finished and Long Awaited Studio? I think the second one. The building work happened so swiftly I […]
The Man bought me this lovely cupcake with my morning tea and I thought it was so lovely I ought to share it with all of you: In other news, the Tatami is finally finished! I am mostly delighted with it; the fabric, colour, drape of fabric etc. is all really lovely. However, I wonder […]
Announcing the official launch of Sticks’n’String, a Reading S’n’B group I’m trying to get off the ground here in lovely Berkshire! Sticks’n’String will meet every Tuesday in The Global Cafe from 5pm onwards. There is a great selection of food and drinks available including many fine organic ales and wines and a great collection of […]
Tatami is A Nearly Finished Object. It is currently stretched over a blanket and a towel, across the back of two chairs. It is wider, side to side, than my armspan and I can nearly wrap the back section alone around my waist! So it’s quite enormous… to give a sense of scale, here it […]
The basics are familiar in every place; it is only the details, or lack of them, that introduce into the British version the unmistakable air of culinary poverty. Their stews are the colour of mud, blood or ochre pigment, and taste of thyme and garlic, orange and almonds, basil and lemon. Ours is the colour […]