Almost a year since we moved in and we’ve finally found a coffee table for the lounge! It’s funny, I guess coffee tables are one of those pieces of furniture that aren’t particularly big or expensive or showy, but when it all boils down to it they’re a huge part of the home. Ours is […]
Category: The Cwtch
Our Christmas Decorations
I couldn’t wait to put our Christmas Decorations up this year. It’s been a couple of years since we last saw them because last Christmas they were all in storage while we crashed at my Mum and Dad’s. It was so nice to see them again, and in our new home – where we’ve got a […]
August Garden
It’s been a looooong slog, but our garden finally looks like a garden. Four months ago our back door opened out onto a very muddy slope. And when I say mud, I mean sludge. Sludgy, sticky, wellie-sucking mud. We dug at it, raked at it, rotivated it until our backs were sore… and then we kind […]
Our DIY Desk
I remember all the desks I’ve sat at over the years in the same misty-eyed way that some people remember old boyfriends. Maybe it’s a “writer thing”. There was the battered school desk covered in graffiti that I ended up with in my second year of UNI (Oh God, I loved that desk) – my 3am spaghetti hoops […]
→ Which three words best describe you in the kitchen? Greedy, Experimental, Neat (when you’ve lived without a dishwasher, you learn to use the same spoon in every pot and clean as you go to avoid a mountain of washing up!) → Three ingredients that are always in your kitchen cupboard/fridge. Hot sauce (Sunny practically drinks […]
