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06 Jan 2011

If you want the best jam, you got to make your own.

This was breakfast today. Warm bread, fresh from the oven, slathered in butter with lashings of blueberry jam. Blueberries are usually far too expensive to put into jam. Tonia found the berries in a post-holiday clear out at one of the big supermarkets. Just 37 pence per 200 grams. Rejoice with me. I was not…

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30 Nov 2010

A girl’s gotta knit

Although I had hoped to, I just can’t podcast today. There’s no way to do it AND finish the sample garment I’m furiously knitting in time for the photo shoot scheduled this weekend. Sample garment wins. In addition to being way late delivering this project, I am also way sick of it. More done with…

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15 Oct 2010

The kitteh ate my podcast

Well, dammit. It’s dinner time and I’m still editing the podcast. It’s been one of those days. Philly left me his wretched cold when he departed Wales for Paris. I felt the tingly sinus thing yesterday, and today I’m sure. I have definitely a cold. Plus, the dog has just been manic because, you know,…

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12 Oct 2010

To sum up

I’m back at my desk this week and hoo boy howdy is there ever a lot of work to catch up on. Normally, this being a podcast week, I’d be totally freaked and worried that it won’t ever be done on time. This week, however, finds me unusually sanguine about the whole thing. There’s a…

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28 Sep 2010

And we’re back.

Well. That was anticlimactic. I thought moving the website was going to be a big fat hairy deal but, as with seemingly everything WordPress, it was actually fairly painless. In fact, if you weren’t paying close attention, you probably missed it. I am planning a long catchy-up sort of post, but that will have to…

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