Chez Spud

My latest crush, EU President Herman Van Rompuy, continues to dazzle me with his general wonderfulness. Already he’s on my ‘freebie’ list (laminated) due to his passion for blogging and haiku writing. He’s a man in touch with his sensitive side and, for this alone, we can overlook the fact that he looks a leeeetle [...]

Town of my noble birth…ah, blessed art thou Weston-super Mare…let’s overlook the fact that Jeffrey Archer is thou Lord…and the fact that the sea is NEVER in and you have to walk a mile for a paddle…and the fact that your nickname of Weston-super-Mud is so well deserved…anyway, thou art blessed amongst faded English seaside [...]

Hoorah. It snowed for real and the country came to a standstill as usual. MrSpud stayed home and we didn’t budge from the farm all day. Instead, we sledged. We staked out our run:

We sledged solo

There was quite a lot of trudging back up the hill of course

We worked in pairs (not shown…me and MrSpud [...]

Unlocks Chez Spud, checks all is well, nothing has been taken, all Secrets safe and sound…? Good, well then let’s continue…
Chez Spud is open for business again. Thank you to everyone who emailed and/or commented, you’re all so thoughtful and it meant such a lot to me. My father-in-law’s funeral is over now and it [...]

My lovely sister-in-law is goodly making a photo album for our parents-in-law (MrSpud’s parents) for Christmas. She’s collecting photos from the weddings of all three of their children, so kind of her. I’m so glad I’m not in charge since I’ve failed to put even our own wedding photos in an album, even though we [...]

My little world, seen through a glass, darkly. Or, more accurately, reflected in a garden ornament…me in regulation green wellies, Bertie with his handbag, MrSpud displaying freakish jazz hands, Klingon Baby Diggy in a sling, one little fat leg poking out…our house…our garden…pig food lurking in the background.
My husband, my sons, my home, my life. [...]

I accidentally ‘fell’ in to the Crumpler store in London this week and was forced, against my will, to buy stuff. Don’t you just hate it when that happens? You’re skipping along the pavement thinking happy thoughts when BAMMM, a vortex engulfs you and twirls you in to a store where elves and pixies relieve [...]

I got so fed up of my ‘temporary’ blog template, and disappearing designers, that I decided to jump in and choose a better, temporary template. I’m not especially fond of butterflies with their flappy flutterings and ‘oh look at me I’m just a glorifed worm..no wait…LOOK AT ME WOAAAAH DID  YOU SEE WHAT I DID [...]

This was my birthday  present from MrSpud last year and I adore it. I had been hinting for a ‘nice pen’ and then held my breath and hoped for the best, and this was a really excellent choice…complete with a sapphire to match my engagement ring (although MrSpud admitted he had no clue that this [...]

I’m not sure that my wedding dress is a very sensible addition to the Ten Treasures list, given that I’m unlikely to wear it again (not least because I’ll never fit in it again). But it is very special to me, and symbolises the day I finally dragged MrSpud up the aisle and enslaved him [...]