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Curiosities

Christmas tree decorations

December 22, 2011 Curiosities

Christmas tree people fall into two camps: the colour coördinated and the pile it all on. Me, I’m definitely in the latter camp. I like my tree decorations to remind me of people and places I love. I’ve had an old shoe box packed away in the attic with a few choice pieces for the […]

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Salvaging our house contents: Noritake tea service & Denton China roses

July 27, 2011 Curiosities

So it’s a scant three weeks before we leave this house for ever after a tumultous twenty-six years. I wanted to spend some non-moving time here, so decided to come up on Monday for seven days. (Although because of training, I am hopping the train down to London from Banbury twice for a few hours […]

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LLG Garage Sale

July 24, 2011 Curiosities

As you may know if you read both mine and my mother’s blog, the family home has been up for sale for a while now, as a result of my parents’ long, acrimonious divorce. Finally, it has sold, and we are planning a garage sale next Saturday, the 30^th July before we all move on […]

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Happy Christmas my darlings!

December 18, 2010 Curiosities

Click on the picture above for a dose of elfish goodness… (& to create your own dancing festive elf)

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Charity: Dogs, Rocks and Frocks for Canine Partners

November 2, 2010 Curiosities

As regular readers will know, lil’sis was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis over ten years ago. I’m not going to beat around the bush: it’s a horrible, horrible disease which affects quality of life on every level. Of course we research everything we can to find out what can be done to help those with this […]

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Boris Bikes hit London

September 14, 2010 Bicycling & sport

So far, so good: I’ve been zipping around central London on London Transport’s new scheme, the Barclays Cycle Hire bikes, for the past ten days or so and there’s only been one big problem. Colloquially named after London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, who pushed the scheme through, there have been over 500,000 journeys, with over 80,000 […]

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Design: Parc del Centre del Poblenou, Barcelona by Jean Nouvel

August 28, 2010 Curiosities

Whilst I was staying at the Hotel ME Barcelona in Poblenou, it was difficult not to be aware of the extraordinary number of flagship architectural projects that have now been completed in the area. There’s Herzog & de Meuron’s Forum Building, David Chipperfield’s Oficines Diagonal 197, the Complex de Cinemes-Plaça de les Arts by Zaha […]

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Paperless Post: a new kind of virtual online invitation

July 26, 2010 Curiosities

Lil’sis & I threw a small garden party at her London flat this past Saturday to celebrate (early) her birthday. I’m a big fan of proper invitations, but time restrictions precluded sending them out this time, so I turned to the next best thing: Paperless Post. Based in America, lots of companies - & friends […]

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