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....
July 2003
Now for the next part I will kick a football around
Garden designer Edna Walling’s
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...