Seasonal Fridge-Art: ‘Sumer is Icumen In’

  Here’s another one of Mum’s seasonal Fridge-art installments. These pop-up on her fridge from time to time, with art or verses usually spelled out in magnetic scrabble tiles. I never know what is going to pop-up and when I stayed with Mum in early summer I discovered this…     Right now you are […]

Christmas Decorations

  This year sees a gorgeous selection of Christmas decorations available. Here are a few of the ones I like (and trust me, I have done a lot of looking about (which I will term as ‘shopping research’) to bring you this list!)   3-D LIGHT-UP STAR   I just love this night-light shaped as […]

Seasonal Fridge Art: Winter

  It is now the middle of winter and on a recent visit to Mum’s I found, on her fridge, another piece of seasonal art. The “artist” says the bit about Jack Frost biting is reflected in the wording forming a mouth shape, complete with teeth. Just like Mum’s Falling Autumn poem (see a previous […]

High-Tea at Petit Fours

  ‘There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea’ – Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady.   I couldn’t agree more, Henry James was right on the mark here. At mid-afternoon, my workmates and I went out for a special high-tea and we […]

Autumn is Here: A Poetry Lesson

  A few blogs ago we had a physics lesson (along with the Red Velvet Cupcakes), then we had an English language lesson (in the blog about Whoopie Pies), today we are going to study the English language again, but this time with a poetry lesson, deconstructing E.E. Cumming’s poem “l(a” written in 1958.   This poem, […]