Monthly Archives: January 2008

Recent adventures

By Liz | Published: January 10, 2008
  On the left we have before, on the right after. This transformation took 14 hours, we started by sanding at 6am and finished wallpapering at around 8pm.It was so worth it. The room looks great and has inspired us to keep moving on redecorating our house. I also had a less edifying adventure. I [...]
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Know thy Vegetables

By Liz | Published: January 7, 2008
What is this plant?   In early November I planted some cucumber and yellow scalloped zucchini in one of my garden beds. The seeds sprouted. One group of cucumber was killed by a late frost. Two plants remained. One I was sure was the yellow zucchini, this was the first time I had tried growing [...]
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Birthday girl

By Liz | Published: January 3, 2008
I introduced G1 as being aged 8. Well not any more. Today is her 9th birthday. Here she is with her mocha sponge-roll birthday cake. This year I’m particularly struck by the fact that she is growing in to a young women. This has led me to reflect on my role in her life. I [...]
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Dusty

By Liz | Published: January 2, 2008
On Monday I bought this. The duster, not the child.   It is supposed to help with problems like this.   This may be a little large for a feather duster to deal with. Don’t worry, the mess in the photo is largely gone. It was actually caused by a big cupboard clean up. House [...]
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Tama-whats-it

By Liz | Published: January 1, 2008
Guess what was lurking under our Christmas tree this year This is not my first choice of gift, in fact they would come pretty low in a list of things I think my children should play with. After a week this is what I think of Tamagotchi. Good points: They keep children quiet! they do [...]
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