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Robyn
Feb 22, 20182 min read
THE 5TH WAVE
Humn. I find myself somewhat ambivalent. I quite enjoyed the film, but the book less so - perhaps it was going back over the same thing...
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Robyn
Feb 18, 20181 min read
HANGING PICTURES
Pictures painted just two days ago and already on the wall? Wonders will never cease! I think it all looks nice and really brightens up a...
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Robyn
Feb 17, 20181 min read
SOME PAINTINGS FOR SALLY
Time to start putting some pictures up in this house! Step one: mask out some shapes on the paper - Sally helped choose where they needed...
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Robyn
Feb 15, 20182 min read
OF COURSE I MADE A MISTAKE
But I think they'll still fit. I'm waiting for the point in my life when I stop making random, idiotic errors. Not the sort of mistakes...
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Robyn
Feb 14, 20182 min read
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY
There were great plans to do all sort of wonderful crafts.... But then I was tired and we ran out of time and instead we just about...
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Robyn
Feb 14, 20181 min read
HELLO PRETTY
Of course this arrives 25 minutes before I have to get the children from nursery! Half term comes with a limited amount of quiet, me time....
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Robyn
Feb 12, 20182 min read
THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS
JOHN WYNDAM Really good! I like to have the occasional author binge - the current object is John Wyndham. I read the Day of the Triffids...
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Robyn
Feb 12, 20181 min read
A BIT OF BEADING
(A couple of necklaces got busted during the show.) Time to get the beading kit out - another present from the husband, but that was back...
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Robyn
Feb 12, 20181 min read
PRESENTS
I sometimes feel like my husband is rather nicer than I deserve. I think they're supposed to be a hybrid of Valentines and well done for...
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Robyn
Feb 11, 20182 min read
ONE OF THOSE SUNDAYS
It actually started out beautifully. I woke up to giggles from Sally as she trundled out of her room. After working all hours with...
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Robyn
Feb 8, 20182 min read
ANYTHING GOES
All the behind the scenes running around paid off. The show rocked! I love the Cole Porter songs, and the acting and singing from our...
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Robyn
Feb 3, 20181 min read
THE SS AMERICAN IS ABOUT TO SET SAIL
Its the weekend of tech and dress rehearsals - lots of sewing and lots of fun. Pip came and played on set this morning - he was a super...
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Robyn
Feb 1, 20181 min read
THE SHELVES ARE BUILT
Leave Husband alone for two days and magic happens! I drew this... and Husband built this. I think he's pretty much got me beat in both...
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Robyn
Jan 29, 20181 min read
PROGRESS
I like it when my husband takes a day off work to do projects Bookshelves are constructed. Tomorrow is painting day and then the house...
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Robyn
Jan 27, 20182 min read
TIME TO LEARN ABOUT A ROLLED HEM.
I knew the setting was there, but hadn't investigated it until it appeared the obvious solution to today's dress problem. I volunteered...
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Robyn
Jan 26, 20183 min read
THE LAST MAN
OR Can you make it to the last page? Almost a year ago I started a course on Dystopian fiction through Oxford University's Continuing...
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Robyn
Jan 24, 20183 min read
DIY TIME IN THE LIVING ROOM
The time has finally arrived to do something about our living room which has somehow languished into a vortex of insipid personalityless...
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