Monthly Archives: January 2008

February Flickr

By Alice | Published: January 31, 2008

Blimey almost February already. This months challenge for myself is to stop being so lazy about Flickr. I don’t know why I can’t get to grips with it – I think perhaps because it is almost a bit too big? I just dump a load of photos in there every few weeks and leave it [...]

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Seed heads

By Alice | Published: January 30, 2008

Today I powered across to the Botanic Gardens on my lunch break. I hoped to find some interesting seed heads and I was pleased with the above. I like the little radar they have poking out – see the ones on the left. Everything in the Botanic Garden is labeled and I was so sure [...]

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blue pink light

By Alice | Published: January 28, 2008

More pictures from the weekend. It was a good weekend for the light. I am very envious of people who live where the light is not so grey and raw blue white. Like Greece. Wouldn’t it be nice to be in Greece right now? Not that I have ever been to Greece, but I get [...]

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At my father’s house

By Alice | Published: January 27, 2008

At my father’s house spring has begun. At my father’s house there is blossom on the fruit trees. At my father’s house I can see my sister’s shoes left forgotten just inside the glass doors from last summer. At my father’s house you can wander from secret garden to secret garden scrunching on the leaves, [...]

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Mystery Vegetable – Kohlrabi

By Alice | Published: January 27, 2008

We get a delivery of organic vegetables each week as it is quite reasonable and makes things much easier. It keeps the fruit bowl and fridge full of nice things without too much thought. However every now and again it can stump us such as this week when we got this little mystery vegetable… Well [...]

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