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Growing things

There is a time in my childhood that stands out as an especially happy one. I was only very small and my parents bought a little house where they spent a lot of time putting in gardens. We had chickens and my dad was very proud of his vegie patch. We moved from that...

bittersweet {Kasey Chambers}

I like something in the background while I paint and before spotify and all the many new ways to enjoy music, three of my favourite CD’s were by Kasey Chambers; “Barricades and Brickwalls”, “Wayward Angel” and “The Captain”. I...

Blueberry Muffins

I my ageing oven was replaced with a beautiful new one last week and so I am in cooking mode even more than I usually am, keen to “test it out”. Today I made these blueberry muffins from a recipe which I adapted to my own tastes by swapping the honey for...

the end of brilliance

I don’t know if it’s just me, but I feel like everywhere I look I see amazing talent… X factor for example….where do they find those spine tingling voices, who seem to appear one after the other, and then there are the visual artists whose work...