Welcome to the North Pole

Welcome to the North Pole

My Christmas countdown is well under way with some of the little traditions I hold dear being achieved...mainly I've now watched The Polar Express. Artem and I watched it the other night while taking the sleigh ride about the Calas Galadhon winter sims...the joy of having two screens! In real life I am continuing one [...]

Purple Winter Haze

Purple Winter Haze

Last night was my work Christmas dinner...trust me, there is no hangover. It was a quiet evening meal at a local pub...no dancing on tables, no raucous drinking games. It just all still feels too early for that...plus we all have work today so couldn't really let our hair down. In real life I haven't [...]

Dream in Ruins

Dream in Ruins

Good morning and Happy Friday! I am usually quite excited about the impending weekend but today I feel a bit 'meh'. I have been a little under the weather having had a stubbornish headache for a few days and not sleeping all that well but I can usually muster better than a 'meh' for a [...]

Little Shop of Bakery Horror

Little Shop of Bakery Horror

I absolutely hated cooking at school...or home economics as it was also called. I hated the whole rigmarole of weighing and measuring ingredients the night before and putting them in a biscuit tin to walk to school with. I lived a good 20 min walk from my school and I detested the walk in with [...]

Hello Autumn!

Hello Autumn!

Back to work today in real life after my long weekend. It really did feel like a long weekend too as it dragged on in many ways...and not all of them good. I did at least get to catch up on a little decorating and blogging and I start the week with three photographs, taken [...]

Out of the Pantry

Out of the Pantry

It's the end of another week and it's been an interesting one that's for sure. I know I am always saying that I am playing catch up but I really am at the moment. Both lives are a real balancing act at the moment with shifting deadlines. It's definitely a time to a long hard [...]

Season of the Witch

Season of the Witch

It is Friday already and I'm not sure where the week has gone. I had some good news at work yesterday when it was highlighted to me that I still had three weeks of annual leave to take before the end of March - that's already taking into account that I have two weeks off [...]

Lean On Me

Lean On Me

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love   I had a fantastic weekend all told [...]