Das Grune
Posted by: lullyweb on: February 28, 2010
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Seeing as we can’t get hold of any wood here we’ve imported it. These “green wood briquettes” are made from sawdust, compacted into solid briquettes. Burns very well.
Nice touch
Posted by: lullyweb on: February 16, 2010
Brightens up the canteen
Happy Valentine’s
Posted by: lullyweb on: February 13, 2010
PPZ
Posted by: lullyweb on: February 7, 2010
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I’m reading this at the moment.
So far an exact copy with the addition of the odd sentence containing zombie action. I’m ignoring those bits and just reading Pride and Prejudice.
Trails
Posted by: lullyweb on: February 7, 2010
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Went for a walk yesterday and tried out Trails, an iPhone app that uses GPS to plot your walk – or run, cycle or drive. One of the most impressive things I thought was that, after walking for an hour and a half, my battery life was still above 85%. The downside is that you have to leave the app open, but that’s an iPhone thing. After the walk you can download any section of the map and edit individual points of it. And the icing on the cake is that you can import your trail into Google Earth. It really is that easy. Well worth £2.39.
UK Snow Take 2
Posted by: lullyweb on: January 7, 2010
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Click the photo to see more
Wet…
Posted by: lullyweb on: November 30, 2009
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….and muddy, soaked, squishy, bare, saturated, brown, and just generally miserable.
But there is hope…
Finally…..
Posted by: lullyweb on: November 27, 2009
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…. a morning with sunshine in it. Hope it lasts. Bet it doesn’t (not cynical, just realistic).
Firle
Posted by: lullyweb on: November 19, 2009
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Firle is mentioned in the Domesday Book and sits below the South Downs and Firle Beacon. Its wide street is lined with beautiful stone cottages, including a pub, local shop and school. All the essentials then. And did you know that the name for the greengage comes from the Gage family, the inhabitors of Firle Place since the 15th century, one of whom introduced the (green)gage to Britain? So there you go.
Draft Excluder – update
Posted by: lullyweb on: November 19, 2009
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After a few (5) false starts I’ve finally made a breakthrough. Although there’s still a long way to go.
The World Below by Sue Miller
Posted by: lullyweb on: November 15, 2009
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I loved this book. The possibilities and What Ifs: What if Georgia had gone to live with her grandmother after her mother had died? What if Cath hadn’t spent that time in Paris? What if John hadn’t sent Georgia to the sanatorium? I loved the flashbacks and the timing of them – I never wanted to be elsewhere in the story and thought the pacing was just right. The characters and their stories were revealed gently and I felt for them and the misunderstandings that shaped their relationships. Great read, especially for a rainy, windy weekend with the fire alight.
In other news, I right royally c@cked up changing colours in my knitting so have had to start again, again. Third time lucky? Should be ready to keep next Christmas’s drafts out.
Draft Excluder
Posted by: lullyweb on: November 9, 2009
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Here it is, four rows in. Just another 225 to go. Gulp.
Knit One, Purl One
Posted by: lullyweb on: November 8, 2009
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Yesterday I equipped myself with some knitting needles and a ball of yarn in an attempt to get more creative. Well, we need a draft excluder so I thought to myself, easy, I’ll make one. Not that I’ve knitted since school. So I’ve started with a smaller project, just completed. I have cunningly emitted the gaping holes from the photos. Am not a fan of the purl, or of casting off. But at least Lully will be warm this winter.
PS No comments please on the state of Lully’s chin, we are still reeling from the whole Head Resewing fiasco.
A Wedding in December
Posted by: lullyweb on: October 25, 2009
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I’ve read a couple of Anita Shreve books before. Testimony I thought was brilliant, but I didn’t really care for The Pilot’s Wife. So this one was make or break. I finished it this morning and am left with that feeling of sadness you get when you have finished a really good book. I am already missing the characters and their stories. Ok, the plot wasn’t mindblowingly original – a reunion of high school friends who have gathered, 27 years after last seeing each other, for the wedding of two of their members. Each has their own history – some with each other – and issues are eventually brought out into the open as the book concludes. The narrative is seen through the eyes of 3 protagonists – can you have 3 protagonists? – and I sympathised with all of them.
And I particularly loved the way one of them, Agnes, was writing her own story with characters that so strongly paralleled her own experiences. I think Shreve created these personalities with compassion and understanding, which I really felt was lacking in The Pilot’s Wife. I am really missing this book, so I’m cracking on with my next one, which is this. Hope it’s as good.
Sorry
Posted by: lullyweb on: October 17, 2009
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Dear Lullyweb.com
I’m really sorry I haven’t updated you for so long. I will make a concerted effort not to abandon you again. Here are some scenes from today’s walk. Looking forward to putting the chestnuts on the woodburner.
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