My Inspiration

Hips, haws, sloes and Lothlórien ash trees

30 October 2009

Yes, yes, I know we’ve already done the obligatory oh-look-it’s-autumn post, but seriously, when I said September was my favourite month? I lied. October has totally blown September into a cocked hat this year. (Um, WTF does ‘blown into a cocked hat’ actually mean? My mum says it all the time.  But where did it come from? Answers on [...]

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Spider season

21 September 2009

Autumn came early this year. The horse chestnuts turned first, right at the beginning of September, no doubt partly from drought. Since the torrential rain in August we haven’t had much at all here in central England. That might’ve been good if we’d had warm sunny days instead, but no; for the most part, it’s [...]

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Digital Pre-Raphaelites

19 August 2009

Dunno about you, but I’m enormously enjoying the saucy romp that is BBC 2′s Desperate Romantics. It may be a highly compressed and questionably accurate portrayal of events, but I declare, sir, it’s damn good fun. If you’ve missed it, all the episodes are still available on BBC iPlayer, and of course we still have [...]

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