Monthly Archives: July 2009

red gooseberry clafoutis

By Alice | Published: July 23, 2009

A big day in our house! We finally have a new oven. We chose one in a showroom the other week, then hunted around online for the best deal, and today our excellent electrician wi.jpgred it in. I was feeling like we hadn't had an oven in years but checking on here it has actually [...]

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kitten update: after the hoovering

By Alice | Published: July 22, 2009

I did some hoovering. Nothing special about that. This was my sofa afterwards. Nothing special about that either. A couple of remotes out but that's ok. However… if you wait quietly for a few moments… …a tiny face peeks out! Checking that the TERRIFYING hoovering sound has ended! And if you look even closer you [...]

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a pale yellow

By Alice | Published: July 21, 2009

Something else from the garden. I took this a couple of days ago at a slightly earlier time in the evening than the dill pictures. I think this is a chrysanthemum? I can't remember what I planted! Although you can't tell the scale from the picture it is a big flower. Sometime I would really [...]

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dill

By Alice | Published: July 20, 2009

I scattered a few seeds in a pot and it has come up yellow fireworks.

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Walking In My Mind

By Alice | Published: July 19, 2009

We headed up to London on a really quick visit to see my aunt and to go to Walking In My Mind which is on at the Hayward Gallery at the Southbank Centre. I had earmarked this exhibition as one to go to because it had installation works by Yoshimoto Nara and Yayoi Kusama but [...]

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