Chez Spud

Oh me love this! I saw one of these on Emma Bradshaw’s blog and totally and immediately hearted it. A wee catalogue card with your own list of joy/evil complete with handwritten scribblings. It’s a thing of beauty, right up there with the Grudge Book. Make one for yourself here.
Also, announces by stealth, the Spuds [...]

People Who Craft…I need you. I need various volunteers to make one item and send to a random stranger somewhere in the world and receive, in theory 36 hand crafted goodies back. Some of you can’t hide, I know you craft so I’ll be emailing you direct. Be afraid….be v..e..r..y afraid.
So people who sew, knit, [...]

For my mother, eleven years distant today xxx

I’ve been pondering about Life Rules…as in Rules for Life rather than some kind of cringe making affirmation type statement (because if it were an affirmation surely it would have at least one ! if not !! and an OK!!! after it like this…Life Rules!! OK!!…and anyway I don’t do affirmations…I only do moaning & [...]

Hello baby Sofie…not such a baby now….all growed up and 1 whole year old! And walking like a professional and sleeping like a champ.
How the last year has flown. You seemed to spend the first 4 months of your life asleep but you’ve made up for lost time since then. Fast and furious, in to [...]

I’m all about photography at the moment, and less about the words. Our Blog Camp 365 project has rekindled my love affair with Flickr and I’m spending a lot of time ‘over there’ and less time in the blogosphere at the moment. But save me a spot would you, because my Flickr passion waxes and [...]

Happy Birthday to ME
Happy Birthday to ME
Happy Birthday to ME-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE….
Happy Birthday to ME!
xxx

Bertie Showing us how Buster Pants, originally uploaded by Busters Mum.
Love that photo above, taken by my Dad’s wife. Love how Bertie is trying to impress us with his impression of their dog panting…meanwhile I’m ignoring him and taking photos of the dog….and Trudy has focused on me, not Bertie, in this shot. WAAAAH! Poor [...]

I’m shutting up shop for a bit. MrSpud’s wonderful father died today and it doesn’t feel right to be wittering on here at such a time. There’s plenty to say of course, but he was an immensely private man and he would hate me to twitter on in public. So I will limit myself to [...]

Plodding…that’s what it feels like we’re doing right now. We’ve had such awful news today, I can’t talk about it for now because it’s just too private and raw.  I know these things always come in cycles, but we seemed to have lurched from one awful situation to another in recent weeks. So much grief [...]