‘We will make a Family Picture’ declared our beautiful artist child. And so we did. By now, the sea will have taken it away. Happily, we have camera’s to capture our moments (aren’t we lucky?). Read more...
Isabella’s Land Art
Have you come across Land Art? A few years back, I discovered a book by Andy Goldsworthy and sat for ages enjoying this delicious feast for the eyes. The other day, I was doing the first garden tidy up of the spring and out of the corner of my eye I saw a very industrious […] Read more...
Enjoying the fruit of our vine!
Today we drank the wine from last autumn’s grape harvest and it was very drinkable indeed. We achieved this interesting feat by joining our local Urban Wine co-operative and pooling our tiny grape harvest with that of members of our neighbourhood. Read all about our grape harvest and the co-operative here and about the Urban […] Read more...
Small moments of ordinary magic
This is it. I inhale deeply, the air runs into my lungs, expands my soul. Its here. People, please forgive my melodrama. Spring has arrived! Wooo hoooo! It is one the most precious moments of the year. The ritual that marks this moment is unashamedly normal, ordinary, every day. I have hung out my washing […] Read more...
Urban Grape Harvest
Our little grape harvest At the weekend we took part in our local urban grape harvest. This is a fantastic community co-operative organised in our neighbourhood (a sub area of the town of Tooting called Furzedown). The project is called the Urban Wine Company and here is a little about it from the website: The […] Read more...
Foraging in the woods today
If you live somewhere rural, please excuse the indulgence of me going on and on about being in the trees. Us urbanites are tree deprived. Off for a cycle ride in the woods today. Would you believe we found a woody glade, with a moss carpeted floor, to have our picnic, just as the sun […] Read more...
Grateful in the forest
I am technologically challenged today. I have a most gorgeous picture of my two bunnies, cuddling up in a bike trailer as we cycle through the trees in Elveden Forest (Norfolk), but don’t know how to do blue tooth on my friends (lovely) MacBook I am using, so can’t upload the picture for you right […] Read more...
Object graveyards
I am clearing out the ‘shed’ part of my workshop so it is no shed and all workshop! Amazingly, almost everything that was in the shed (not part of my mosaic life) has found a home elsewhere. There is nothing like decluttering and sorting stuff so that things have a proper home rather than being […] Read more...
Deep thoughts about…carrier bags
I was in a large DIY store last night, shopping for paint samples and varnish etc… We are in the middle of DIY ‘heaven’ at the moment – four rooms plus our hallway being done hence me writing this blog from a room piled high with all the contents of the other rooms! As I […] Read more...