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Category Archives: All Random Musings
The joy of touch (typing)
I first learnt how to touch type on an electric typewriter in high school. In fact I actually took typing as a subject in years 8 and 9 (is it even offered any more?). Before then I’d applied the old … Continue reading
Posted in All Random Musings
Tagged keyboard, Music, qwerty, therapy, touch typing, typewriter, typing
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The Wedding Recap (and no, it wasn’t mine…)
Remember the other week when I said I was going to a wedding? Well the wedding has long since been and gone, and I thought I’d give you a little idea of what went on. There were pretty candles shining … Continue reading
Posted in All Random Musings
Tagged celebration, dresses, reception, restaurant, shoes, video game, wedding
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4 simple goals (… before 2011)
I’ve been meaning to pull together my own list of simple goals for ages, ever since reading about this lovely project over on ‘A Beautiful Mess‘ (the lovely blog of Elsie Flannigan). The idea behind the project is to commit … Continue reading
Posted in All Random Musings
Tagged email subscriptions, food shopping, fruit and veg, local markets, new hair, new year, online citizen, simple goals
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A few things of note … (and a little shopping)
The end of last week and the start of this week have proven to be rather busier than I’d previously anticipated … but that’s OK, life can be a bit like that sometimes! Things are s-l-o-w-l-y returning to normal in … Continue reading
Posted in All Random Musings, Shopping
Tagged busy times, card, catching up, father's day, madeit, sissy sparrows, vintage coasters
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Goin’ to the Chapel …
I’m off to the wedding of my future sister-in-law later today. While I was hoping for blue skies and fine weather, it seems that the day will instead be rather grey and rainy. I really wanted to ‘go vintage’ with … Continue reading
Posted in All Random Musings, Fashion
Tagged dress, full skirt, green dress, hidden pockets, jonathan logan, party, pocket dress, timeless dress, vanessa tong, vintage, vintage style, wedding
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The right age for matching crockery & cutlery?
I always thought that at some magical point in my life I’d be living in a gorgeous house, filled up with beautiful and super-stylish homewares … perhaps an ideal best described as having everything ‘just so’. In such a world, everything … Continue reading
Posted in All Random Musings
Tagged crockery, cutlery, growing up, home, homewares, house, secondhand goods, vintage
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Second guesses, second thoughts and second glances
While much is made of the rules of three, sometimes the rules of two are more powerful … It takes two to tango. Two wrongs make a right. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I … I took the one less … Continue reading
Posted in All Random Musings
Tagged bird in the hand, rule of three, rule of two, second guesses, self-trust
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That IS happiness to see me
As I sat down to compose some general thoughts about the joys of red licorice, I also started to think about how happy eating red licorice (or liquorice) makes me (and no, I don’t just think that’s the sugar talking). … Continue reading
Posted in All Random Musings, Food
Tagged candy, gwyneth paltrow, happiness, licorice, liquorice, red licorice, viggo mortensen
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Weekend reflections …
Some weekends are great because you go out and do a lot of things, see a lot of people and spend a lot of money. Some other weekends are extra special because they unfold much closer to home … Weekends … Continue reading
Posted in All Random Musings
Tagged camera, home, lazy, magazines, Photography, pyjamas, weekend
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Memories of the fantabulous Paul
I stumbled across Paul’s blog many years ago when I was just starting out with my own. Since that day I’ve been constantly astounded by the depths of his poetic talents and completely in awe of his commitment to the … Continue reading






