I’m writing on my phone. I can’t sign in on the laptop. It’s as if the powers don’t like bloggers any more. I went to the caravan in Wales and have confirmed that I’ll give it up at the end of the season. Being without internet, I kept a jo…
I'm having problems with Blogger. I much preferred to use the blog on my own domain, but I had a huge amount of difficulty with it last year and I've simply given up. It's all complicated and it was because *they* messed up and the person I…
I'm having problems with Blogger. I much preferred to use the blog on my own domain, but I had a huge amount of difficulty with it last year and I've simply given up. It's all complicated and it was because *they* messed up and the person I…
I'm trying to clear the decks of paperwork over the next week or so, to take July off as much as I can. Once August comes, I'll be working on the auction catalogue, which takes weeks, so this is my best chance. It's hot out there, but not i…
It was a relaxed and cheerful blog party. There were only 8 of us, but that made it easy. I made pulled pork (slow cooked overnight, pulled apart with forks) and sirloin of beef, plus salads and eggs. Then orange cake and chocolate cake, sy…
I went to an excellent lecture today about Japonisme, the influence of Japan on Europe from the second half of the 19th century onwards. I already knew a fair bit on the subject, but this lecturer went beyond paintings to textiles, clothes,…
I did cook the fish, as well as cabbage, last night. I still have some of the fish left - when I think that, back in the day, my parents cheerily tucked into a pair of kippers for breakfast or a whole Dover sole for dinner - the sole would
When Weeza was a little girl she would announce, at the end of a busy day, "I'm hungry and I'm thirsty and I'm tired." I thought that at lunchtime today, after more than three hours spent with china. So I poached two bantam eggs and toasted…
I went to church this morning - we only have one service a month now, though an informal church group has a meeting every week. From last month, we've combined forces. I won't say that the very informal services really suit me - they use th…
I just faffed around most of the day, not inclined to do anything at all. I pulled myself together eventually as I really had to do the description of the last few pieces of china from weeks ago. I picked up another 24 pieces last week, so
I have been donating blood for a long time. It quietly matters to me, but I don't want to be thanked for it. If I can, I should. In the past few years, it's been slightly harder - it's just age, I've cut back from three times a year to two,…
On the way home, I called in at a client's house to pick up porcelain for the next auction (and the one after, as it's more than I can put for one person in one sale). He'd said that it was already packed in boxes, which pleased me as it wo…