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A little Glastonbury film 22 Aug 2013 | 08:34 pm
I found this nice little film on Youtube described as A trip to beautiful Glastonbury, with it's holy places, the Tor, the Chalice well, the White spring, the Glastonbury thorn on Wearyall hill, the A...
My week in pictures 17 Aug 2013 | 04:25 pm
On Sunday night we walked down to the Abbey ruins, where we watched Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, followed by Bryan Ferry. As I was a teen in the 70's these were 2 of my favourites. We have seen S....
Adventures in the kitchen- Lentejas Caseras 10 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
With the change to cooler weather and the passing of Laughnasa, I welcome the opportunity to return to my favourite kind of meals, thick soups, veggie stews and curries. I do like lentils, but I like...
Building update and sleeping in the kitchen 8 Aug 2013 | 02:28 am
Time for a building update. Last week, the new front door was fitted and the plasterers started the preparation for the external rendering. In due course, the extension, along with the main house, w...
Already enjoying our new room! 4 Aug 2013 | 03:58 pm
Here at Hillside, we are enjoying our new room already, with a bottle of wine and a couple of plastic chairs. The cement mixer and the washing machine make useful drinks tables and the dog is conten...
Medallion quilt top and some hexagon stars 1 Aug 2013 | 06:26 pm
You might remember that Lori, over at Humble quilts, invited us to take part in a sewalong, where she posted a pattern for a little medallion quilt. I'm linking up with her HERE where you can also se...
Making flowers, hearts and medallions with Fondant icing 31 Jul 2013 | 11:30 pm
My neighbour M, rang me. "I'm going to show my Great grand daughters how to make icing flowers, would you like to join us?". I remembered the delicate little primroses she made to decorate her birth...
Windows and some sewing 30 Jul 2013 | 11:11 pm
This week the windows and back door arrived. Now I would have loved elegant wooden frames, painted cornflower blue, but that just wouldn't be practical, so we went for UPVC. When we started work on t...
A lovely bit of dirt! 27 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm
Today Martin brought us a trailer load of top soil. His young son manned the digger. Despite his tender years,, he often works with his Dad and is quite an expert operator. They were all laughing at ...
More progress, with the arrival of our new front door 26 Jul 2013 | 01:27 am
Great excitement today as the new front door was delivered. I searched high and low for a door with 4 panes of glass at the top and found this one, after DH was having a chat to a colleague who had ju...
