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….AND relax…..

18 Comments Posted by Diane on November 19, 2009

I’ve done quite a lot since I last wrote here. So much so that I’m only going to give you potted highlights otherwise you will lose the will to live before you are half way through. I was invited to a Charity Gala dinner in London on Friday 30th October, the highlight of which was [...]

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A brief pause…

15 Comments Posted by Diane on October 11, 2009

Another hectic week. It amuses me that occasionally I get called ‘a lady who lunches’ because I don’t go out to work every day, whereas in reality, some days I am so busy I forget to have lunch. This week was one of those weeks. It was my god daughter’s wedding on Friday 2nd, so [...]

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Help!

32 Comments Posted by Diane on July 24, 2009

I have spent an inordinate amount of time this week trying to sort out my email settings. As you might know, I own the domain name dianealdred.com and it struck me that I don’t use the associated email so I decided to set it up as an alternate email address. My #2 son has been [...]

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I may have found my new career…

44 Comments Posted by Diane on July 9, 2009

I’ve been occupied this week with making a gift for my sister to say ‘Thanks’ for my wonderful sailing holiday in Greece. Here’s a sneak preview of what I made for her. I was going to send her a CD with copies of all the photographs I took but I decided it might be nice [...]

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Roverandom

41 Comments Posted by Diane on May 4, 2009

I took a break from my big project this week (still can’t really show you it!) It was a bit of a busman’s holiday as a friend’s daughter, Jemima, who is in the second year of a Visual Communication degree at a local uni, asked me to help her with her final project. She had [...]