Sunday, 5 January 2014

Chalk





Almost time to change the date by the front door.

(The pic is from St Vitus Cathedral, Prague: my front door is a whole lot more grand....)

I also have friend, now living abroad, who likes to have a piece of chalk.

Last year I sent a piece through the post. The custom declaration was interesting to fill out, shall we say.




Thursday, 2 January 2014

An Award - and then there were two

Thank you to Mac and Ben for nominating me.

So little do I consider my blog in the public sphere, that when a gentleman asked me about bara brith after the parish carol service, I did a double take. People actually read this?

On the blog largely reduced to pictures of cakes and saints since Feb '12, here is the stuff.

10 pieces of info about me.

1. My birthday is on Christmas Day.
2. I have two younger brothers.
3. I eat porridge for breakfast.
4. I play the horn, though far far less than I would like.
5. I gave my nephew a Richard Scarry book for Christmas, which he had read three times by 9am- he gets up before dawn.
6. My Dad likes bara brith and that is why this blog is so named.
7. I like growing stuff in the garden and then cooking people dinners using it.
8. Beethoven is my favourite composer or maybe Dvorak, Brahms, Bach or Mozart, Mahler, Stravinsky...
9. I like walking and swimming.
10. So far today amongst other things, I have been to Mass, had my hair done, put on two loads of washing, done some ironing, printed the Propers for Sunday and Monday, chucked some junk out, done some weeding, cooked soup and stew to freeze for term time and emailed my Dad a link about a new TV series about Wales. And it's only tea-time!

As usual, everyone who I might nominate has already been done, so if you are feeling left out, please consider yourself nominated and I will appreciate your blog, even if retrospectively.

Wednesday, 25 December 2013

Happy Christmas




A quick post Mass snack and then time for some Zzzzz.

Monday, 23 December 2013

Musical merriment

Bill Bailey on chords

Dr Qui

That all important Britten centenary. If you need a reference point, listen to The Sally Gardens and be grateful I didn't choose The foggy, foggy dew.

And still my favourite
Igudesman and Joo, I will survive





Tuesday, 17 December 2013

An announcement

Thanks to a tip off from Clare's Dad, I have been to Lakeland, bought the oven cleaning gel stuff, and CLEANED THE OVEN.


*glow*

Other deeply satisfying Christmas holiday activities thus far, have included propping up my neighbour's broken fence panel and playing 'The wheels on the bus' on the violin to my nephew and then playing it again and then playing it again and then playing, 'Horsey, horsey.'

Sunday, 15 December 2013

Gaudete





Saturday, 14 December 2013

Catch up day

Getting behind with my feast days.