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Category Archives: Daily photo
DIY Wallpaper
July 14, 2009 – 8:51 am
I love colours on walls, and painting the white wallpaper in our tiny spare room was the agreed testing ground for bolder projects. I first sketched out the design of the tree and raven in pencil, and then painted the sky (a combination of deep blue and purple tempera) and then the ground (ochre). [...]
Current Travel Obsessing: BlogHer Dresses
July 13, 2009 – 8:02 am
My preferred method of packing is to leave it all until the last minute and then rush around in a faff while the ticking vein in Z’s forehead becomes more pronounced.
However, due to the fact that I’ll be working all day the day before we leave – I’ve started packing and planning in advance.
Normally my [...]
Old travel stories: Belize Jungle Boogie
July 12, 2009 – 2:28 am
N: What can I say about Belize?
Z: It’s wet and green. And it doesn’t have roads.
Most of Belize is jungle, which in some areas looks primordial and huge – all tangled canopies and gigantic ferns and tree roots the size of my leg – while in other places it looks more like a dense European [...]
Old travel stories: Belize
July 10, 2009 – 11:27 am
I think it says a lot about Z and me that we invested so much more effort into planning our honeymoon than we did our wedding, and we chose Belize since it promised to cater to both of our passions: exploration (his) and lazing on books with beaches (mine). We went there in January [...]
Small boy, big hat, passion for yellow flowers
July 10, 2009 – 10:58 am
Untamable toddlers and equally wild gardens = a love story.