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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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Busy, busy, busy…

24 Comments Posted by Diane on July 2, 2009

Well, I’m finally back home again. How many times have I said that already this year? It has been a wonderful few months. My sailing holiday in Greece was so relaxing. There were four of us, Grant, who is THE most easy-going skipper, (in my experience most chaps turn into Captain Bligh the instant they [...]

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Planes, trains and automobiles

13 Comments Posted by Diane on June 3, 2009

Well, I’m back. I have so much to tell you that it’s all a bit daunting, so I’ll start at the beginning and take a few short cuts. I went to see Julia Fordham perform at the Pigalle Club in London. She was quite amazing as usual, her extraordinary voice never fails to send shivers [...]

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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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A very mixed bag…

22 Comments Posted by Diane on April 20, 2009

It’s been a funny old couple of weeks since I last posted. Lots of good things happening and a few bad. The good things included me finding out I was a runner up in a photography competition I entered a few weeks ago. This is the image they liked, it’s East Cliff, West Bay, Dorset. [...]