Monthly Archives: September 2010

Lomo Berlin, Friedenau

I have some Lomo pictures from Berlin too. This is almost the last bit of Berlin talk for this year :) The flat I stay in is in Friedenau so I know this area fairly well. I guess you could perhaps say it is kind of like the Upper West Side in New York? It’s [...]

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things I made lately: bag tag and makeup brush pouch

I made a pouch for my make-up brushes when I go away. I have a black fake leather one I got free from M.A.C. but it’s really not my style. I think it’s nice when away if your things are cheerful are a reminder of things at home. I used the last bit of the [...]

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UGUiSU!

After work I stayed later in the city centre as I needed to look for some comfortable but not ugly shoes (difficult). A combination of having to schlep around the high street shops and getting completely soaked to the skin on my bike (you know when you are so wet your clothes look shiny?) meant [...]

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all stewed apple all the time

I think stewed apple is AWESOME. Luckily I know very nice people with apple trees that are happy to keep me well stocked with cooking apples at this time of year. TY! It seems to have been a habit with Victorian houses that they would often put fruit trees at the back of the garden? [...]

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Lomo St. Giles’ Fair

Once a year for two days at the start of September St. Giles street in Oxford gets taken over with rides and games for the St. Giles’ Fair. When I was a kid at school in Oxford this fair was a really major social event and there would be all this fuss about who was [...]

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