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Mud and stuff

26 Comments Posted by Diane on April 7, 2010

These are the last few photographs from my sister’s visit to Dorset, the weather ranges from wet and windy through misty and cold and on the last day – the sun came out. I thought I would try out the new WordPress slideshow option – quite nice. My #2 son arrived home on Friday for [...]

Families, Humour, Interesting facts, Pets, Photography, Places, Travel, Uncategorized, weather ammonites, beach, cliffs, Dorset, Durdle Door, fossils, Lyme Regis, mud slips, wet dog

A hunting we will go….

30 Comments Posted by Diane on March 29, 2010

My sister and her husband are visiting Dorset. Yesterday, we decided to go to Lyme Regis. The weather wasn’t brilliant but at least the day started out dry. Compare this photograph of Lyme yesterday, with the second one of the same harbour in the summer…. The whole coastline in Dorset is a World Heritage site [...]

Photography, Places, Families, Interesting facts, Travel, weather Lyme Regis, fossils, ammonites, Black Venn, mud slide, Monmouth Beach, Charmouth

A very good trip…

9 Comments Posted by Diane on March 17, 2010

I decided at fairly short notice, that I needed to go to London. My #2 son and two friends have just moved into a new flat, I needed to have a meeting with a client about the jewellery website I am designing for him and last but not least, my ex was in town (not [...]

Art, Book arts, Bookbinding, Books, Crafts, Design, Families, Food, Handmade books, Interesting facts, jewellery, paper arts, Photography, Places, Travel, web design, Weddings Banksy, Brick Lane, Nicholas Hawkesmoor, Shoreditch, Spitalfields market

Doesn’t time fly when you are having fun?

7 Comments Posted by Diane on March 1, 2010

Well, I have just returned from another trip – this time to Switzerland. Zurich to be precise. Schindellegi to be even more precise. It’s a small town sitting above Lake Zurich. Very pretty but unfortunately shrouded in fog most of the time I was there. I knew the lake was there but didn’t see it [...]

Birthdays, Blogs, Dance, Families, Movies, Music, Pets, Photography, Places, Travel, Videos, weather, Weddings Crans Montana, Einsiedeln, George Clooney, Javier bardem, Russell Maliphant, Schindeleggi, snow, Switzerland, Sylvie Guillem, toboggan, Zurich

Where there’s a Will….

14 Comments Posted by Diane on February 7, 2010

I’ve just returned from Stratford on Avon. It was my sister’s birthday. A BIG birthday made all the more disconcerting because she is my younger sister and the less reminders I have the of how old I am, the better! I made her an album for her birthday, which involved the inevitable trawl through old [...]