Posted in home life, quirky bizarre, god, faith & spirit on Aug 1st, 2010 No Comments »
So yes, I did plant flowers this afternoon. One pot with red cottage daisies and purple alysum alternating around the edge, with a cheery yellow pansy in the centre. Two pots of purple pansies with petals so dark they’re almost black, mixed with jonquil bulbs. Three pots full of freesia bulbs that will smell dreamy […]
Posted in home life on Jun 13th, 2010 2 Comments »
How does one wash jumpers? In the washing machine would be the logical answer. I usually wash them by hand because of some previous unfortunate shrinking and felting experiences with other washing machines. This usually means I end up with a mountain of jumpers to be washed because hand washing is tiresome and the end-to-end […]
Posted in home life on Nov 7th, 2009 4 Comments »
Anticipating guests staying in the next few months, but having nothing for them to sleep upon except the rather ugly lamington swirl carpet, I bought an double-sized self-inflating inflatable mattress from BigW. Not being the preferred option for showing hospitality, I thought I should give it a test drive. Or should that be a test […]
Posted in home life on Oct 27th, 2009 5 Comments »
Finally I have something interesting to blog about. Tonight when I drove into the garage after Commie Dinner, there was a grate and a crowbar leaning together in a nook near my garage. “That’s odd.” I thought. Odder still was finding that person or persons unknown used it to break the lock and shear off […]
Posted in home life, simple living on Oct 4th, 2009 No Comments »
“In the early 1990s, after hearing a story about “Material Girl” Madonna’s latest self-promotional enterprise, photojournalist Peter Menzel had a vision: Rather than take viewers into the mansions of the rich or the “cribs” of MTV celebrities, he wanted to capture the material life of average families around the globe. His resulting book, Material World, […]
Posted in home life, the arts on Sep 11th, 2009 No Comments »
The other day I finally took the nun poster to the framers. (Sisters of Charity, Washington D.C., by David Moore, 1956) The poor nuns have been sitting in a temporary frame for I don’t how many years. But that’s not the problem. The problem is another poster - Metropolis, 1999 by Rosalie Gascoigne. I’m not […]
Posted in home life on Sep 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
I love those nights when you dash home from work, are reheating soup in the 10 minute window before having to head out for a meeting, and quickly check your phone messages to discover that you don’t have to go out after all. Yeah, they’re good nights!