Where the City Sleeps

Where the City Sleeps

It's all about the red and white at the moment. The title of the blog is a minor lyric from a Green Day song and there has been a huge campaign here in the UK for several months, to get Green Day's American Idiot to number one in time for the visit of the Orange-a-tard [...]

Time to Make Me Feel Right

Time to Make Me Feel Right

I'm running on about four hours sleep and my usual nap time on a Saturday is going to be replaced with watching football as England take on Sweden for a place in the World Cup semi final. Today is going to be interesting for sure. I'm sure other countries have their own stories of World [...]

Last Friday Night

Last Friday Night

If you like shopping events you are clearly not bored or short of things to do in Second Life lately with the early part of the month jam-packed with event openings and launches. Vanity Event opened it's second round yesterday and is packed to the rafters with fashion and home and garden items from really [...]

The Orangery

The Orangery

When my children were younger we holidayed for several years running at a small, family-run, hotel complex in Sorrento, Italy. the hotel itself only had around 8 rooms but there were cabins scattered around the complex. The hotel complex had originally been an orange and lemon grove and most of the cabins where shady with [...]

SL Home & Garden Calendar – June 2018

SL Home & Garden Calendar – June 2018

A little introduction for anyone new to this format and project: In January 2016 I started a fun Flickr group called Sl Calendar Girls. The idea behind it was that people would add their beautiful photos of women to the group over the course fo a month and at the end of each month I [...]

A Day Brightened by a Smile

A Day Brightened by a Smile

I am terrible at collaborations. I mean I WANT to do them but I am useless at following up on them and pushing for them. I always figure everyone is as busy as I am and won't have the time to do it. EXIS and I have been talking about doing a collaboration...hmm, probably for [...]

Beach Chill

Beach Chill

Happy Monday! The first day of the week and even though I like Mondays I'm particularly excited about what the week ahead has in store in real life. The weekend has flown by, as usual. The World Cup is heating up almost as much as the temperatures here in the UK and I have some [...]