Filling the Space

Youngest is on route to Bali for a two week holiday.......shes been in the air for 13 hours with at least 3 more to go......I'm tetchy and can't concentrate on anything till she gets there.....

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Last night...... was spent with friends oohing and ahhing at pictures of french property for their coming retirement, hurried home to watch the recorded tour de France and all its drama, when...

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A fantastic holiday in France and Spain....we have met such lovely people along the way, fellow Europeans who treated us with such kindness (at our lack of language skills) and showed interest ...

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This has taken me ages.....life just got in the way lately with work and family stuff......and it's only the top done! I'm not happy about where the new 'beast' is located.....in the main k...

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At last this quilt top is done. Life just seems to have got in the way of finishing this or was it the heat......just trying out the blogsy app on ipad so see how it goes   Posted with B...

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but the tour came through our small town on its last leg in the UK and it was AMAZING! All the schools were shut and even though it was a Monday, I think most people must have had the day off......

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........how did that happen Beautiful, funny, talented and full of life..... Happy birthday darling girl x

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OK here goes.....if like me you spend a ridiculous amount of time looking for others online who also create the kind of things you like, then the bloggers quilt festival spring 2013  is brillia...

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I added another strip to my liberty quilt to make it more usable....I love it, the picture doesn't do justice to  the colours of this fabric....all scraps that I've been saving up. I've ...

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I knew if we didn't distract ourselves Herb would be inexplicably drawn to the coverage and that was more than my poor ears could stand . So prompted by this post by Celia  about somethi...

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The quilt is finally finished and given to my sister for her special birthday. A label was sewn at the very last minute It was a difficult one to quilt because of the colour ...

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Kaffe Fassett exhibition at the Fashion and Textile museum in London .....I was in heaven, child in a sweet shop stuff. Opened by Kirsty Allsopp, it was a real feast for the eyes.....I do hap...

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My own fault. Perhaps in the back of my mind it was a bit of a test.   Never mind. Eldest daughter owned up that she has been reading my blog and I think I have spoilt the surprise putting the ...

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Morning peeps! Another week in the small town.....at least the mornings are getting lighter, in a week or so I wont be getting up in the dark...hurrah. Seriously if my job was around the co...

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we can all breathe a sigh of relief because youngest has been reunited with her heels and  bobby brown paraphernalia, hair products and a shedload of clothes......is this really university I h...

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Stopped us taking youngest back up north to uni. Instead we've just dropped her at the station with just enough stuff to get her through the week until hopefully we can drive up with the rest nex...

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at work......I struggled really to focus on the world of accounting again when all I really want to do is play with fabric and thread, read blogs and the paper, the odd book, go for walks........

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Hope you all had a wonderful relaxing Christmas. We had our very own prescribed day........bucks fizz and bacon sarnies with the present opening. Roast beef dinner and all the trimmings..sal...

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First time the tree done without the girls......bit sad about that , but I'm sure there will be a bit of rearranging when they come home!

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A FINISH! I started this quilt in January and finally finished it yesterday! I fell in and out of love and then back in when finishing it. I added another round at the end and its officially ...

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I have these two cushions to give away if anyone can give them a good home. I'm afraid it's uk only due to postage costs. They have the pad included Just post a comment on the blog and I will ge...

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Off to see the torch which is passing by the end of the street ..... Absolutely chucking it down!!!

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Eldest got her results yesterday.......and she got a 1st in psychology from York! We are both so incredibly proud of her and pleased she got the result she had worked so hard for. She is havi...

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Thats what it's called in these parts...well in this house. Whatever I do on a Sunday, I can see the raised eye brows of those around me, whispering, the sigh of acceptance of what they perceiv...

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