Yes, that has been us in the last two weeks! We started off on the southern most tip of the UK, amongst the hay bales of the beautiful Eweleaze campsite on the Dorset coast and ending up in Scotland, dipping in the North Sea (brrr….!), baking bananas on the beach with the driftwood we gathered [...] Read more...
How much fun can you have..?
Or asked another way, how much fun do you allow yourself to have? I’m a hard working kind of girl and often get teased by my beloved for being too serious. A ‘World on My Shoulders‘ kind of thing has been at work through most of my adult life – a tendency to focus on [...] Read more...
Camping with children – the pros and cons explored…
For those of you new to Glittering Shards, this site explores mosaics, art and soulful, creative living. My blog posts are categorized in this way (see column on the right) and I write them from the heart because these are things that motivate me. Its true to say that ‘Mosaic Loving’ has featured the most [...] Read more...
Waiting, waiting…
…for spring to come. This week, we have all been struck by nasty viruses. It is the part of parenthood that nothing can prepare you for – tending to sick children night after night and then getting ill yourselves. It will pass, as sure as spring will come (and funnily, we always get most [...] Read more...
Being absurdly delighted…
A quick little pit stop to say hello as we are in the midst of washing piles of laundry after a beautiful week camping on the Norfolk coast… and getting ready to go to the Greenbelt Arts festival. We have been relishing beaches, waves, woodland walks and some of the traditions of a British [...] Read more...
Summer in the City
This week, being a tourist in our beloved London. Houses of Parliament from the Abbey Gardens (free to enter, very quiet and peaceful place) Despite recent events just up the road from us, scary and unnerving, we keep …our eyes locked on the overwhelmingly bigger amount of good (see here and here and here) ..our [...] Read more...
Our Father’s Day gift tradition (& our new venture!)
It was a whim of an idea three years ago that is now a solid tradition. Just before Father’s Day, the kids draw a picture of daddy then I transfer them to a t-shirt. Daddy t-shirt 2011 (kids aged 5 and 4) Yesterday we unveiled Daddy t-shirt Number 3 and he just loves it – [...] Read more...
Make your own champagne in 5 easy steps!
Now, I wasn’t planning on making champagne this weekend – I didn’t even know the possibility was available to me. Yet, I kid you not, I now have a huge vat of champagne brewing in my kitchen, thanks to a serendipitous chat with a good friend at the school.gates on Friday afternoon. “Come to the [...] Read more...
Snow play and Finnish ice lamps…
Could this be our first ever white Christmas? It is snowing as I type. Our usually, dull, grey, damp London is looking like something out of a Dickensian novel… and we are loving it. All of us are now on holiday (yippee!) and I am finally catching up on the backlog that built up due [...] Read more...
Art making and The Big Silence
I have been art making all week…tired, happy and frustrated as I always think I can achieve more in a day than I actually can (why is that? anyone else have this weird perception of time?!) As I work, I normally flit between listening to music on the iPod to talk radio (BBC Radio 2, [...] Read more...
