Author Archives: Alice

Homemade iPad Case

By Alice | Published: February 1, 2012

I made one! I took two pieces of corrugated plastic (good as it is light but firm and protective), glued felt to both sides of this, then sewed a fabric pouch for this to all go into, and I folded the top ends of the fabric pouch inside. The outside strip I actually glued around [...]

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lately

By Alice | Published: January 30, 2012

1. Beep likes to snuggle. 2. One friend reading another friend’s Soviet joke book, a lot of laughs ;) 3. Beep enjoying cat grass that I grew from a kit I was given at Christmas. 4. Ira. 5. The weather lately. 6. IPAD!! I have been loaned one and I love it. It’s my kind [...]

Posted in Cake & Dessert, Cats, Cooking, Days and nights, Oxford, Travel & Places | 2 Comments

winter colour in the garden

By Alice | Published: January 25, 2012

This is a pretty dead time of year in the garden but primroses stop everything being brown :) I keep pots of things on that piece of slate on the table when we aren’t using the table in the winter. The table is from IKEA that I painted with outdoor wood paint and let go [...]

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Little Horse

By Alice | Published: January 19, 2012

That isn’t Little Horse, that’s a normal sized horse. THIS is Little Horse with tiny little stumpy legs. As seen on a very wintery lunchtime walk. I’ve been talking lots of film pictures lately so there has been a bit of a posting hiatus while I work my way through a roll and send them [...]

Posted in Oxfordshire, Travel & Places | 2 Comments

Maple Pecan Granola

By Alice | Published: January 9, 2012

I don’t plan to make granola in particular at this time of year but this seems to be when the urge strikes. I guess it is a time of year when you need all the cheer you can get while still trying to eat healthily. For this batch of granola I wanted to limit the [...]

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