17 Oct 2014 | Life (less ordinary)
Umbellifers are my favourite flowers. Budding, full flowering or gone to seed and withered after a long winter, I like all stages of these most fairy-tale of flowers. During a walk with my little girl, we saw many pretty things: rosehips, golden leaves and pink...
7 Oct 2014 | Life (less ordinary)
The amount of produce we had from our veg garden this year has been shocking really, and not in a good way. Every spring we are all excited about the garden, and that this year we will grow most of our veggies ourselves, the biggest range we ever grew, being...
3 Oct 2014 | Life (less ordinary)
Back from Greece with a tan, lovely colourful images in my mind and on our camera’s, and kilograms of tiny stones and pebbles, it’s a good thing we drove to our holiday 🙂 This trip included our very first official camping trip with our little girl…...
1 Oct 2014 | Books, Life (less ordinary)
I was a little girl when my interest in watercolour was first sparked. My parents gave me a tiny watercolour box for my birthday, I think when I was about 12 or 13 years old. I still have it and I have to admit that it hasn’t been used a lot… And I also...
26 Sep 2014 | Life (less ordinary)
Well, not entirely true, I found about 4… I was really looking forward to hunting for some amazing shells, but they were almost absent where we were staying. But there was something way better than seashells; amazing multi-coloured pebbles and tiny stones in...
10 Sep 2014 | Life (less ordinary)
The summer is almost over here, but we’ll be going to the sea in a little while!! I love spending time near the sea in the late summer, the weather is not so blisteringly hot, and everything is so mellow and golden. To get me in the mood I collected some lovely...