What happens when bloggers meet....

No....David Tennant doesn't turn up and inform you of some sort of strange distortion in the space time continuum... although we wish he had ;-)

Well, I suppose I better tell all...

The exciting thing that happened today was... I met up with a fellow blogger!!
I met the Lovely Jo from Angel Jem's city cottage! I think we were both concerned that there would be awkward silences...welllll no... I've finally met my talking fifteen to the dozen match!!! Before you ask, yes she is as funny in person, no we didn't shut up and yes we were there for hours I did wonder if we were going to be asked to leave!!!!!! I suspect that we'll have to meet up again as we did have fun, we both thought it'd be fun to meet up with even more bloggers but we all live so far apart! I was well behaved on the way out Jo - I promise I didn't spend much dosh.... just a tiny little magazines (oh and LSM wanted stamps!!!)

I hope that everyone else has had a fab day!! Oh and if Jo and I decide to make it up to Scotland... there are several people that need to watch out!!!!!

Perhaps we should plan a bloggers convention.... What about the quilting show in Birmingham??? Leave a comment if you are planning to go!

New York

I have recovered my composure now and normal blogging service shall be resumed.

I spent Saturday night with my mate Louie. We are both 30 this year (she's slightly younger and takes every opportunity to remind me!) and to celebrate we are taking ourselves to New York. As you can imagine we are both rather excited having never ventured out of Europe before! OBVIOUSLY we shall be frequenting the garment district, but what I want to know is, does anyone have any tips on places we HAVE to visit? Favourite restaurants, button shops, clothes shops, museums, galleries.....etc We'd be very glad to hear any advice!!!!!

To leave you with a great photo I found of me as a punk for a charity "dublin dash" weekend. 7 of us went in costume from the year we were born - 1977 seemed a great opportunity to have a chain from nose to ear, black lipstick, a studded dogcollar and a backcombed, greenhighlighted mohawk!!!

Would you take Library books from this woman?????!!!!!

Paul Temple and the case of the blog swap and the Sunburned Librarian

I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend! Wasn't the weather brilliant (more on that story later!) I'm so grateful to the lovely bloggers who participated in the swap we've just had. I feel terribly guilty that I only sent one out as everyone else has sent me one (lovely people!) I do have to beg extreme circumstances what with Mum's party and all, however you should look out for little surprises dropping through your front doors soon! Here they are in all their glory! What a talented lot you all are!

So to you lot - I'm holding aloft a cup of my best Royal Blend Tea and an organic oatcake biccie!

I will never lose my page again!

Gill@ http://lucysarah.blogspot.com The Red Rose one

Allison @ http://foxglovesinthebreeze.blogspot.com/ The Purple Floral one

Susan @ http://randomblethers.blogspot.com The Yellow and Orange Embellished one

Jo @ http://angeljemscitycottage.blogspot.com The Woven one

Wendy @ http://thewendyhouse.typepad.com The Classic Black and White one

Special Thanks to Jo of course for organising it all!

And on to the next part of the post...

Today people I'm am all a-glow... I'm creating my own little furnace with the heat generated by sunburn. Sophers and I went to visit some friends who live in a BEAUTIFUL little house in Wales. They have done all the work on it themselves and they have done a magnificent job. They are friends we met through mbira camp and we are very glad to have met them. They put on a lovely spread and provided a great place for us to gather and play. So thanks Eve and James, we'll be back!

Isn't concentration a wonderful thing - thanks Sophers.... I'm going to get one of your "mbira face" too!

Here ends yet another long post! I hope everyone else had a good a weekend as I did!

Da da DAHHHHHH!!!!!!

Here it is, my first post with pics!!

I have posted before about my attempts to learn mbira... well this is what mine looks like. It is a Zimbabwean instrument and it sounds amazing! I have been learning since last May when I went to my aunts house in France for my first mbira camp. I've been this year to one in Scotland and hopefully I'll manage to get the Devon one too!

This is the "action" shot of Sophie (my sister) who also plays to demonstrate how it is held. What you can't see is that the little finger of her right hand is placed through the hole to help hold it in place! (please excuse very untidy living room floor - we had been magazine reading and knitting and eating lovely things from the farmers market!)

Oh and here is a bad photo of some brilliant fireworks I saw along the Mersey last Thursday!

see.... I told ya - I'm really not David Bailey!!!!

Famous last words

It looks like someone didn't hear me regarding this snow doesn't it!

Never mind. There are things that are lovely about it. I love the way it feels when it falls on your eyelashes. The way everything becomes clean. Making the first footprints, turning round and looking where you have been. I love the way it turns adults into children when they have a snowfight. I work in a very multicultural environment and I have witnessed lots of people seeing the first snow in their lives this week. That has been a lovely experience, so perhaps someone knew what they were doing after all.

Mmmmm.... time for another cup of tea me thinks....!

Here's to great snowy days