Chez Spud

Hey, by the way, it’s my birthday. Oh, did I mention that already? Well, no point being coy about it. Just one year to go before the big 4 oh (or 30-10 as Julochka would say). A time to take stock, reflect, wonder where the hell time is going and a dawning realisation that ‘this [...]

Following on from yesterday’s Three Colours: Red…

Garden Clock
Garden path

Wedding dress

Ikea bowls

Julochka’s lampshade

Diggy’s curls

Tide Mill in our local town

Heavy frost down our lane

Frosty garden gate

Local animal food store

Fishing boat, Aldeburgh

Snow, also red for yesterday!

If you leave a vast pile of boxes in the garage with a leaky roof  for ‘just a few weeks’ (um, 9 months ago) you can expect some of them to have rotted away, taking their contents with them.
It doesn’t matter how many times you say, ‘That’s IT! I’m never moving again!’, some day you [...]

Famille Spud is confined to barracks – we have swine flu. Bawl. Not badly, let’s hope it stays that way. But since we are housebound I thought I’d pass the time by packing for Blog Camps 1.5 and 2.0 (I know, greedy..TWO Blog Camps). A little ahead of time, I realise, but a girl can’t [...]

A week or so ago I spotted a little ‘nugget’ on The Fragrant Muse’s blog, where she’d jotted down a few of her ‘gremlins’ with a view to banishing them, or at least giving them a glancing blow, by putting them down in writing.  I admired her honesty for sharing and started musing on whether [...]

Goodness, at this rate there will be nothing left to share! Everyone will have had their bit of me and Chez Spud will have to shut up shop because, finally, I ran out of things to say.
So the sassy Jules of Just Jules tagged me for ‘7 random things about me & a pic too’. [...]

Despite threats, I have held on to these 5 questions from NBF Ali to be scheduled while we’re away this weekend. She was most indignant and demanded  immediate publication – I see she is an instant gratification kind of gal. Well, she’s just had to WAIT. Mwah ha ha.
So, with thanks to the impatient one [...]

So, I only like to watch films I’ve seen before. It’s not as daft as it sounds; watching a film takes a couple of hours of my life and I need to be confident it’s going to be worth the bother. Naturally there is a ‘bit’ of a flaw here in terms of actually [...]

Oooh, it’s a game and it’s all about me. Two of my best favourite things. Here are five questions put to me by the fragrant Extranjera.
1. How has the transition from a flicking gal to a bloggin’ babe been? How are you settling in?
I’m settled right in thanks. I’ve moved on from an initial ‘oh [...]

Spent much of the morning pondering on the word ‘meme’…what is it….what does it mean…where did it come from…how do you pronouce it…and does it need feeding like a small pet of some sort?
Having established what it is  I pushed on and rose the not insustantial challenge of Molly’s 5 random favourite things. My list [...]