A Celebration of Mundanity

“Remember, remember the fifth of November" You know, it's a bit difficult for me to not remember the fifth of November, it's my younger brother's birthday. I was telling him how he should come and…

I've put in hours and hours of work, but 162 pages later, and two squinty head achy eyes from spending too much time in front of this laptop screen, I have created a book. This is a book that…

The random stripes blanket I started in March 2007 is finally finished today. Just to recap, I used Lion brand “Suede” yarn in seven colors: coffee, taupe, eggplant, teal, garnet, spice and…

For this week only, we in the UK will be only four hours ahead of the east coast in the US instead of the usual five. We made the switch from daylight savings last night. But now... it's 4:30 and…

I know I mentioned before how beef tastes differently in the UK. The cows are all grass fed, are generally older when slaughtered and produces significantly leaner meat. This makes for beef that…

After a long, long, long sabbatical, commenting is now working on my blog. Mark helped me move to a different editor that has a much better spam filter. So, family, friends, this means you, comment…

Or rather, I should say, my fingers smell like bugs. I'm now volunteering in the Entomology department at the British Museum of Natural History, on Wednesdays. When another person who worked in both…

I really like our little High Street with it's green grocer and butcher shop. Our local grocery store is pretty small, it suits us for the most part. It's small so we just have to work around it not…

I just saw an ad for a rather bizarre toy, the Elefun. It's an elephant that blows butterflies out of its snout. The object being to catch as many butterflies as you can. An ELEPHANT. Blowing…

Mark is in Brussels this week. It's a chilly rainy grey day. But I'm armed to the tooth in coziness anyway. I've got the fire going, I had a warm bowl of sweet and spicy carrot and coriander soup, I…