Right now I am all cleaned out. We have spent the day finishing off loads of half finished projects, so we have filled holes, painted walls, chopped up trees, cleared the garden and cleaned the house from top to bottom. I take great pleasure in cleaning bits of the house that were clearly never touched…
Month: March 2007
Composting
Today we are feeling very proud of ourselves. We have ordered our first compost bin to recycle all our kitchen waste from here. Apparently it takes 6-12 months to turn into something good enough to actually use…. I’ll have to make sure I don’t get bored trudging to the bottom of the garden with my…
hedgehog
We found a lovely hedgehog underneath our rotten old shed today. He was curled up into a ball around some old plastic bags. We scooped him up and deposited him in the park at Ally Pally this evening. Robin spent the day pulling down the old shed and rotten tree with the help of some…
Newbie swap: Pick 3 items
Newbie swap: Pick 3 items, originally uploaded by Jennifer Young. I received my first swap today – all the way from Tasmania! The package was great, lots of stickers, a cute bookmark and notepad. I’ve sent three swaps off to my partners around the world. I hope they like them.
My 30th birthday
Hooray, almost the end of my first day being 30. I had lots of presents including a nice new Orla Kiely handbag and necklace. I had lunch with my workmates and saw Spamalot this evening. Exhausting but lovely.
It's the end of the line –
literally and figuratively as today is the last day of my second decade. I was fortunate to take a trip on the Piccadilly Line to Cockfosters for the first time. I was on a course at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture which has a fab museum display and shop!
Farmers market buys
Spent a lovely weekend staying local for a change. We spent Saturday visiting Crouch End and watching Shaun of the Dead – the two go really well together! And today we visited our local farmers market and garden centre in the grounds of Ally Pally. We have stocked up on tools for tackling the garden…
Hooray it's friday
A late night after too many pints at the Prince Albert, Notting Hell. Thank god it’s friday.
Corner of my home
My mum!, originally uploaded by Jennifer Young. Spent the last few days with my lovely mum. We made a huge curtain for the lounge – we used 16 metres of a beautiful rich red fabric we bought at John Lewis. The lounge looks great, lots of reds – in the rug, fireplace tiles and other…