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balloons
Yesterday evening saw the second of six mass ascents for the balloons participating in the 34th Bristol International Balloon Fiesta (there are three early morning flights and three evening flights,...
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boing!
Is it art? No, I don’t think so. Is it fun? YES, absolutely! Jeremy Deller’s Sacrilege, popped up on College Green at the weekend and, despite the rather ho hum title (surely a Turner prize-winner...
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jammy
Every year, in late August, my neighbours pass a vast sack of crab apples over the wall. They give me their harvest in exchange for half the crab apple jelly I make with it. But not this year. The...
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going solo
The girls returned to school yesterday and I found myself alone for the first time in six weeks. I wandered down the road to buy a newspaper, delighting in the fact that there was no one at my elbow...
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money, money, money
Launched last week, bought on Monday afternoon at Bristol Credit Union, these beautiful Bristol pounds (£B) are still in my purse this morning despite several attempts to part with them. Although a...
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only in bristol…
Since moving to Bristol six years ago, barely a week has gone by in which I haven’t thought “only in Bristol…” at some point; usually in a good way, though sometimes (whilst waiting for the...
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christmas: paper scissors stone
So, December is upon us. Time, I think, for a little shopping tour of Bristol. And where better to start than Paper Scissors Stone, a pop-up art and craft emporium which shows every sign of having...
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back on track, sort of…
A week has passed by in a blur of coughing and paracetamol. Ten days ago, I was ahead of the game, this morning I realise that this is no longer the case and the annual Christmas panic, the panic I was...
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wreath round-up
Last year I became so obsessed with the wonderful local wreaths I started photographing them, much to the embarrassment of the girls who were usually with when I took the pictures. This year, having...
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happy christmas
We had a lovely day, hope you did too. and, better late than never, our wreath … made from a swatch of weeping birch twigs which I found on the pavement on Christmas...
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snow!
Life has been very busy lately, which is why it’s been rather quiet here on the blog. But the thick blanket of snow which arrived on Friday morning has changed all that. In a matter of hours our...
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fallow*
In January, I embarked on an interesting project with two friends, which will run until July. It’s strange to have a formal structure to my week after so many years in which my work has come in fits...
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a good egg
On Thursday night I went to a lovely party at Tart, on the Gloucester Road, to celebrate the publication of A Good Egg — A Year of Recipes From an Urban Hen-Keeper. Genevieve Taylor is the hen-keeper...
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taking stock
Amazing what a dose of even fairly weak sunshine can do for one’s spirits. Every year I spend much of January and February trying not to look at the garden. When I do, I am filled with despair: I...
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making do
This time last year the first of my tulips were in flower, and the house was filled with vases of homegrown narcissus, hellebores and hyacinths. This year is rather different. I’m making do with tulips...
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keep on running
Last Sunday, for the first time, I took part in the annual Bristol 10K. It was an incredible experience to run through the streets of Bristol with around 9,000 other runners, and then out along the...
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neighbourhood art
This morning, while walking up to school, Martha and I spotted this rather lovely creation on a local lamp post. I have no idea who is behind it, but I am hoping that more will follow. I can’t decide...
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thank pippin it’s friday!
At the girls’ primary school, SATS week is known as doughnut week because the children’s efforts are rewarded with a daily doughnut. Some might see that as a double-dose of ill health, but the...
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excuses, excuses…
I had planned to return to blogging on New Year’s day: not a New Year’s resolution exactly, but a goal of sorts. New Year’s day! What was I thinking? And then, when that date flew past, I thought I’d...
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seville season
Blink and you miss them: the season for Seville oranges is so short that many greengrocers and supermarkets don’t get round to stocking them at all. And if you fail to bag a kilo or two in January,...
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