July 2003

Soup du jour

Soup du jour

After watching Jamie’s Kitchen last night, and witnessing his students blunder through the supposedly simple exercise of cutting up leeks, I thought I should tell you about my leek cooking disaster over the weekend....

Printers?

Printers?

Craft explosion! The Needlework, Craft & Quilt Fair visits Melbourne this weekend. Also – I want to get some wrapping paper printed. Does anyone have any ideas about good, cheap printers that will handle...

One cheek on

One cheek on

Sleep? Sleep happens between 4 and 5am some nights. Amelia J has her second ever cold and needed many cuddles in the night. Finally, after poking me repeatedly in the eye, she fell asleep...

Blog Change Bot, baby

Blog Change Bot, baby

Apart from having a birthday yesterday, Ben has also created a cool blog monitoring service. If you run AOL instant messanger and you click here , you will be notified when Loobylu is updated!...

Flea Market Regrets

Flea Market Regrets

Happy birthday Ben! While I paid $5 for 5 enamel cups at the flea market yesterday and thought I had got a good bargain, it’s nothing on the $5 well spent at a thrift...

Chilly digits

Chilly digits

I am coming out of what I guess must have been a post-holiday slump. For a few days last week I thought I might have to go and find “someone to talk to” as...

Pudding bird

Pudding bird

I am working on some christmas cards – and the bit I like doing most is funny little fat pudding birds. Original Elisa Kleven collages are now on sale through Storyopolis. My about page...

Sounds ok

Sounds ok

I currently don’t have a mobile phone, but when I do finally get one, I would love to have loons yodelling or a great spotted woodpecker drumming as my phone ringtone. The British Library...