Snow Day

It’s hard to take a day off when you work at home. No matter what you’re not doing, there’s always something else sticking its head up and demanding attention. Mind you the number of things I don’t do is staggering but I find it difficult to ignore all the demands at once.
We’ve got a lot [...]

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Out with the old

I’m a little slow getting to anything like starting the new year afresh! I haven’t finished taking down the Christmas decorations yet and only avoid paralysing guilt by staying away from that part of the house. Today, however, I plunged into a clean up in the studio, putting away fabrics that have been heaped around in [...]

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Cycles

Lately I’ve been thinking of circles (as opposed to thinking in circles, something I have been suspected of at times).
“Old Jack”, really John Strong lived “up the street” from us on Healy in a funny little “cottage” cobbled together of the city’s discards, painted blue and ornamented with more discards that Jack found attractive. It was [...]

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2009 already!

Well, well, well, well, well, where have the last week and a half gone – not to mention 2008? I know, I know . . . the New Year inevitably falls a week after Christmas; I was warned.
When I last wrote we had company coming and no hot water. We nevertheless managed a very pleasant gathering [...]

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