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A fine day indeed

20 Comments Posted by Diane on April 25, 2009

I had a particularly good day yesterday. The night before, I stayed up until 2am printing pages and then got up at 7am to finish the job, rushed to the post office and posted the latest book to the record company, so that’s 8 finished, 12 to go. Once that job was done I could [...]

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Inspiration…and a little perspiration

20 Comments Posted by Diane on January 28, 2009

I’m sorry, I’m sorry – been neglecting my blog, I know. My excuse is that I have been working on a very complicated web site (well, for me anyway) and after spending every waking moment toiling away at my computer, the last thing I felt like doing when I stopped to relax was blogging. Anyway, [...]

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A bit of a whinge….

21 Comments Posted by Diane on November 25, 2008

I’ve been busy. Yes, me. Holiday Queen. I designed a website for a friend and she mentioned this to her friend who happened to need a website and her brother, who happened to need a website and Lo! and Behold! I have been working. All a bit of a shock to the system really especially [...]

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The bear necessities

19 Comments Posted by Diane on October 28, 2008

There is rather a sweet blog called ‘Dear Teddy‘ which I have seen mentioned in various places around the old interweb (Daddy Papersurfer, 70steen and Olga, the Traveling Bra – I would have thought another kind of teddy was more her style!). “It’s a blog, by for and about all those old stuffed animals and [...]

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Home again, home again, jiggety jig…

15 Comments Posted by Diane on September 17, 2008

Well, I’m back and I seem to have brought back some sunshine – not as warm as California sunshine but very welcome nontheless. I managed to twist my knee playing tennis on the my last day so the 10 hour journey home in my cramped seat, followed by a 3 hour drive home to Dorset [...]