All Entries Tagged With: "Book"
Out with the old
Dear Universe, I would really like to stop being a pack rat. Thank you for listening, JaPRA PS For my UK friends, where do you take clothes to donate to charity? Do you just show up at the charity shops? Do you have make an appointment? Telephone for a pick up? I have books and [...]
Texas Bound
What a weekend! We celebrated our own little Christmas here on Saturday. We gave each other a bunch of books, so after a pokey three hours of opening presents and brunching, we spent the rest of the day reading and taking it easy. Sunday we took Trudy to the doggy spa, packed (oh, what a [...]
Books make GREAT gifts
Sarah Laurence is hosting a “Blogger Book Boost”! Let’s do our part and help the sagging book sales this holiday season, shall we? Not all of the books on my list are new titles. Instead, my recommendations include a sampling of books on topics that I talk about regularly on this blog. Cooking Cherry Cake and [...]
La "Meme" chose
Okay, bad pun. But thanks to Barrie, you have something else to read about today instead of the post I planned to write: an extended lament for my poor postman who still was delivering mail at 5:30 last night. He said that he could barely see–the streets are very dark out here in the boonies. [...]
A show of hands–how many of you will order pizza this weekend after overindulging on Thanksgiving fare?
I have been meaning to do a “local pizza delivery menu” post since I saw my first flier last year. Anyone who says the food here in the UK is boring or bland obviously hasn’t been here recently. The food is varied and delicious, and most of all, very fresh. I’m not going to promise that every [...]
Thanksgiving menu and other food thoughts
I am feeling better today. I got a lot of planning done this weekend, plus it SNOWED yesterday! Ok, it was snow/sleet and not very much of it, but it was pretty while it lasted. In Thanksgiving news, Roxi and Mr. DJ voted the turkey off our menu in favor of a “Honey Baked” ham. [...]
Today is one of those days I wish we had a fireplace
Trudy in front of a snug little cottage not far from where she likes to run. Doesn’t it look like Snow White must live there? Taken on my Blackberry Pearl. I finally am feeling just about normal! I got sick on Oct 31 with a sore throat, fever, cough, and eventually laryngitis for four days. Roxi, on the [...]
Don’t you hate it when you talk about so many random things in your post that you can’t think of a good title?
I am on a new computer today. This weekend (while I was sick), I did a massive backup of my laptop to my external drive… and then I put my poor laptop out to pasture. So for now, I will be using the desktop Mr. DJ bought last month when our music studio computer died. [...]
New Recipes and Another Blogger Meet :-)
I cannot stop thinking about Steamy Kitchen’s Fish Tacos with Roasted Corn and Pepitas and Homesick Texan’s Corny Dogs. I think I’ll make the corn dogs for my husband on Friday for our Halloween date since Roxi has a school dance/sleepover. She doesn’t like hot dogs, and to be honest, I’m not crazy about them either, but I’ll [...]
Notting Hill, London
I met Bee in London’s Notting Hill neighborhood yesterday. What fun for me especially, since I haven’t been to this part of town since I was a teenager. I took to the tube to the closest tube stop, Ladbroke Grove. I loved this little bit of tromp l’oeil in the upper left corner of this [...]
