A brief interlude in the collection of delights, or moments. When I started my collection of things that brighten my day, I did so with the plan that I wouldn’t store them up: I would write about a particular moment, on a particular day. I wanted these to reveal themselves to me, and in their …
Category archives: Art and visual
Rediscovering lost skills
Sometimes, it isn’t the new that delights, but the old that feels new. Chatting over lunch on Saturday led on to a little light paper cutting activity, and soon we were on to making Christmas snowflakes. For the uninitiated (and in case you DO want to try this at home), cut out a circle of …
Picture our amazement
Only one more this evening, I promise…that’s the trouble with writing about food, you always think you can fit another one in…in this case, one more blog post for the night. One reason for blog absence in the last few months has been because of doing more stuff to our flat: this time, taking out …
Bright lights, big city
Late night shopping eh? It takes on a different edge in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Crowds five deep, an air of slight panic among the shoppers – and the shop staff, who are piling on the discounts to get people through the door. But this is Edinburgh, and the setting is a definite incentive …
Kit form
The home improvements continue…well, not apace, but at least they continue. Part of the grand plan is to get more storage inside our wardrobes, and thankfully, the powers that be at IKEA foresaw that people would want to shift things around at different times, and created lots of nice holes to move new shelves into. …