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22 Dec

festive dress

A work Christmas catch-up by Google Meet is about as good as it’s got this year for partying, but I wore a silly dress for the camera anyway, albeit with cardigan…

22 Dec

handy candles

Just at the point at which we were finally about to burn our way through the last of this lot (and others), some more candles from the endless supply that…

26 Oct

the Christmas crockery

You’ve seen this pattern before – and now the family heirloom Noritake ‘Dominica’ dinner service, our ‘Christmas set’ since time immemorial (in my lifetime, anyway), is all mine. All of it,…

26 Oct

parallel lines

Latest visit to my parents brought two summer skirts – one navy linen, the other black cotton, both mid-calf and very plain, too boring to even bother photographing – plus two striped…

14 Sep

modernist material (and a cat picture)

Never like to turn down some interesting fabric, and while I have no particular plans for these three swaths, all with a sort-of midcentury pattern or feel, I suppose they…

04 Sep

glazed jugs

As y’all know, I like a piece of pottery with an interesting glaze, and I do like a jug; but given the constraints of my own kitchen space, I now…

04 Sep

rosette rainbow

Not a find as such, but I’d been wondering what to do with my collection of Pony Club rosettes amassed many, many years ago – couldn’t quite bring myself to…

04 Sep

terracotta pots spotted

Did I say I had resisted the urge to bring home plant pots found on the street? Well, that resolution didn’t last long. I’ve dragged home a few terracotta pots…

12 Jun

plant rescue

What with this virus circulating, I am feeling rather wary of picking things up in the street. Last night I nearly brought home a pair of dark grey containers dumped…

12 Jun

cheeky monkis

Well, there’s not been a lot of opportunity for Usual Shopping lately, obviously, but I was reminded – whilst deleting a load of photos on my phone – of a…

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