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A nice day out

22 Comments Posted by Diane on July 20, 2008

I had such a nice day yesterday. My girlie mate, Amanda, suggested we had a girls’ day out and we decided to go to Totnes in Devon. We chose Totnes as some friends, Sarah and Joe, have an art gallery there called White Space. It’s a really lovely gallery, selling a wonderful range of contemporary [...]

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Where the wild things are…

26 Comments Posted by Diane on July 18, 2008

Well, hello there, I’m back! I have so much to tell you I don’t know where to begin. The new haircut? The holiday plans? My meeting up with an old friend? The lovely walks? No, it has to be my excuse for my absence. After #2 son’s graduation, he came back home with me and [...]

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Storm clouds over Dorset….

26 Comments Posted by Diane on July 5, 2008

I try not to use this blog too often as a personal forum for all my pet peeves, personal traumas and disasters however, every once in a while something happens and I just have to explode! Back in April, I thought I was being very clever and bought some garden furniture from an eBay shop. [...]

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Come on over to my place

16 Comments Posted by Diane on May 12, 2008

I like this paper. I will confess I relented and bought some more from Paper Source as I still can’t find a source of funky modern designs here in the UK. However, I have found another good supplier of lovely paper called the Paper Studio. They are based in Tempe, Arizona and the studio ‘ [...]

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A Fleeting Glimpse of Dorset

14 Comments Posted by Diane on May 3, 2008

I went up to London yesterday. I won’t bore you with the tedium of the journey there and back but suffice it to say it was a sorry catalogue of delays, misinformation and outright porkie pies. Example, on journey home: Announcement 1: ‘delay is due to operational misunderstandings at Waterloo Station’. Announcement 2: ‘delay was [...]