bikes

sam got a new bike so is loving biking to and from work. here he is leaving home in the morning...

we went on our first expedition together in to town to a Taize service at Westminster Cathedral.

it was beautiful and the bike ride home was too, after a wee tipple in the pub. my poor little purple grape now has a punctured tyre so i'm on foot again to and from work which is annoying, although it has been so beautifully sunny that the walks have been lovely. i miss zooming through the streets and across the common.

in a few days we will be zooming over to Oz! :)

happy thanksgiving

sam made an amazing feast for thanksgiving last night. topped off with a whole tub of ben and jerry's chocolate chip cookie dough ice-cream between the two of us...mmm we are thankful for ben and jerry's. and more importantly for a great first year and a half of marriage and a lovely home and amazing family and friends all over the world (that's you!) and our lovely fireplace.

happy thanksgiving to all of you... check this out for a great thanksgiving ditty...


also a plug for my sister .. triona is busy making pancake mix for fairs and selling well. her pancake mix makes the most delicious pancakes!! i think a bag of it is about £5 and you can order from her. so if you fancy some pancakes in the holiday season... topped with yoghurt, maple syrup and bacon, its a great way to start a lazy weekend...

walks are back

while i was off work with back probs, walking became a wonderfully soothing and restoring way to ease the pain. it was also a joy discovering more of our surroundings here in clapham/wandsworth. wandsworth common is but a 2 minute walk away, and perhaps my favourite london common. it has a lovely meandering pathway through a thin strip of woodland which i discovered and returned to several days in a row.










slightly out of place was a closed up, expired play ground. juxtaposed against the otherwise flourishing, affluent surroundings of wandsworth. it was slightly eery. kind of doctor who-ish. bikes and tows were strewn around the place as if kids had been suddenly removed in some bermuda triangle type way.













from the common i would cut across to northcote road (local hive of cafes, markets, little shops and our local) to have a coffee or lunch and a browse in charity shops (op shops) and a long time spent in the library. on one of my visits i discovered heaven and earth, an amazing book containing images taken of the detail of otherwise unseen bits of humans and earth and space. here are some of our favs. can you guess what they are of??

almost 2 years...

since our last trip to Australia (blog entry from similar time before last trip). It was pre-marriage but wintry cold as it is now. We're really looking forward to heading south to Oz for R&V's wedding and Christmas.

climate change

on saturday 4th november my lovely school friend Cam and sister Tri and I joined 25,000 people marching against climate change through the sunny streets of London... Britain's largest environmental protest! (i have to admit we all enjoyed the effects of global warming when the crowd was moving slowly :)

i do wonder if these marches make any difference? if the anti-war march is anything to go by then they don't. but hey, lets not give up trying... and raising awareness along the way.

some of the pictures are worth clicking on to see a bit bigger. the one where i am holding a placard - it is not my placard. i don't know who the guy in the middle is but it is his.

weekend with gran

sam and i just spent a weekend with gran in Dorset. sam was quite fluey and it is a lovely cozy place to rest and recover. the sun was bright so i went for a gorgeous walk.

thomas the tank engine was running back and forth along the tracks at the bottom of the fields behind gran's house for children on half-term holiday.

we had a lovely and very large pub lunch on sunday. awful traffic on the way home but beautiful sunset.

gran is very inspiring - in her nineties and still incredibly healthy, active and very wise and thoughtful.