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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

Old things, new things – snow joke, you know…

20 Comments Posted by Diane on January 8, 2010

I had a quiet intro to the New Year which was nice as the week between Christmas and New Year was quite hectic. Since then, I have been busy doing things I don’t normally do. First I baked a cake for a friend’s birthday. It was his 60th so we decided to have a 60s [...]

Birthdays, Design, Digital art, Food, Movies, Places, Uncategorized, weather 3D, Avatar, baking, black forest gateau, knitting, lack of, snow

All quiet on the Western front….

20 Comments Posted by Diane on December 3, 2009

For a change it’s all been quite quiet chez moi. Lots of web design and coding going on – I hadn’t realised that eCommerce was such a complicated thing, so that has been keeping me glued to my Mac day after day. Just as well as the weather has been dreadful – torrential rain and [...]

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Procrastination rules…OK?

31 Comments Posted by Diane on April 5, 2009

My youngest son is travelling in Australia and the Far East for four months and I spoke to him the other day. (Don’t you just love Skype?) He asked me what I had been up to. I replied that I had been working relentlessly on the music anthology books and clamshell boxes. He said ‘I [...]

Book arts, Bookbinding, Books, Cool links, Families, Handmade books, Movies, Pets, Travel, Uncategorized Bill Nighy, Cannes Film Festival, Claire Fordham, Julia Fordham, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ifans, spiders, The Boat That Rocked

Bah humbug! Again.

22 Comments Posted by Diane on December 12, 2008

Took the pooch to the beach yesterday and arrived just as the sky turned black and it started to rain. The upside was there was a beautiful rainbow – well two actually and I managed to get some photographs. I came home looking like a drowned rat with the added bonus of a sandy wet [...]