going home (if there even is such a thing)
Ella and Louis somewhere in Austria This might be a bit strange- this blogpost. Yes, I’m aware my writing can be odd on a semiregular basis, so this isn’t necessarily the most shocking opening gambit,...
View Articletime to join the @elaine4queen Admiration Society
The Once and Future Queen You all know @elaine4queen, right? If you don’t, you should. She’s like the very best thing bout the Tottenham Riviera. She and her dog Poppet are the best hosts in the entire...
View ArticleElaine’s Cuppa Cake
Elaine’s already gotta place to land when she gets to Scotland! Our favourite Tottenham Riviera blogger elaine4queen has been threatening to move to Scotland, so I happened upon the perfect place for...
View ArticleA year? It’s been a whole year?
Blowing out them candles… Has it been an entire year? Quite a lot has happened this year since I started this blog. I’d taken a few stabs at blogging (unsuccessfully) and still have a teablog that gets...
View Articlethanks Ralf for saving my Christmas
Louis is not doing a yoga pose…NO, he’s not Yesterday was Christmas Day, and all was going relatively well until my boy dog Louis decided to disappear. It was quite honestly the most terrifying half...
View ArticleDragged with vim & vigour
Taking the hounds out for a walk takes on a whole new meaning when you’re wearing your roller blades, doesn’t it? So much holiday preparation going on this last weekend, but we still had time to go out...
View ArticleFine words butter no parsnips
Well, I was just kidding when I assured Robert Godden that I’d used ‘Fine words butter no parsnips’ in a long ago blogpost. Purportedly, he’s just spent an hour looking through the archives of my...
View ArticleTheir brogues and their cheer and their utter joy
I’ve connected with friends via social media and even met quite a few people face-to-face who I’d first connected with online. I was rather active on twitter back before it seemed to be mostly brands...
View Articletravelling with Out of True as it was intended
So, one day in the mail, this little green book arrived. Poetry? Who reads poetry these days? Oh, I know. Guy Clark does. He says this in one of my favourite of his songs: ‘Here’s a book of poems I got...
View ArticleNeed a better class of friends
This is sort of a weird situation, because I’d committed myself to start blogging again daily, and missed yesterday. Like running, or even exercise, if I don’t do it regularly, i.e. every single day,...
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