Merry MidWinter

Mid Winter’s night already and almost midnight! I was meaning to post about the great curtain debacle in the Makery but, what with our garage being turned into an annex (which involves filling our house with mud and dust and flooring and pieces of kitchens and bathrooms…) and two new baby granddaughters (one born a […]

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The Trial and Error Cats

As every pet owner knows (and I’m using the word ‘owner’, here, in the loosest possible sense because we all know who really owns who), now and again, when you are not thinking too much about it, you fall quite naturally into speaking each other’s language. And so it happened the other afternoon. It was […]

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‘P’ IS FOR PAPER

On Sunday I said I had settled on my ‘word for the year’. And the word I have settled on isn’t actually ‘Adventure’ but ‘Paper!’ Perhaps, though, I shall try to keep ‘Adventure’ for the spirit of the year. I know ‘Paper’ might sound rather dull and mundane – a bit passé in this digital […]

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A glimpse…

Looking back, I notice that the post where I said I was making a Makery was dated 1st April, so you might have thought it was an April fools joke.  But really I was quite serious. I was gong to show it when it’s finished but, today, I decided to share a glimpse. Yesterday I did […]

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So I’m making a Makery…

“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet…” That’s always sounded reasonable enough to me. Perhaps being named Capulet or Montague can end up being a matter of life and death but what about these names: Music Room, Study, Craft Room? In the days of my […]

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