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Hamming it up…

9 Comments Posted by Diane on May 15, 2010

I was lucky enough to be invited to spend the weekend with friends who have a house in Devon near Salcombe. This part of Devon, for those of who don’t know it, is gorgeous. It’s called South Hams and the area is very green and pretty with its own microclimate which makes it a very [...]

Photography, Places, Television, Travel, Videos, weather David Cameron, debates, Devon, election, Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg, Salcombe, South Hams

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

Excuses, excuses

16 Comments Posted by Diane on January 27, 2010

Well, the huge mountain of ‘things that need doing’ which I have been trying to run away from (and which must be attached to me by a long length of elastic) has finally smacked me in the back of the head and I have been forced into doing something about it. Consequently, I have been [...]

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….AND relax…..

18 Comments Posted by Diane on November 19, 2009

I’ve done quite a lot since I last wrote here. So much so that I’m only going to give you potted highlights otherwise you will lose the will to live before you are half way through. I was invited to a Charity Gala dinner in London on Friday 30th October, the highlight of which was [...]

Art, Birthdays, Book arts, Bookbinding, Books, Charity, Crafts, Families, Handmade books, Interesting facts, Music, Photography, Places, Travel, Videos, weather Alhambra, Anish Kapoor, Bill Clinton, Caves, Fedex, Granada, Malaga, Nerja, Royal Academy, Sayalonga, Simon Lynge, Spain

A brief pause…

15 Comments Posted by Diane on October 11, 2009

Another hectic week. It amuses me that occasionally I get called ‘a lady who lunches’ because I don’t go out to work every day, whereas in reality, some days I am so busy I forget to have lunch. This week was one of those weeks. It was my god daughter’s wedding on Friday 2nd, so [...]