Last weekend we drove up to Bedfordshire to attend the Season Opener at the Shuttleworth Collection. Each car was allocated a space of five square metres on the side of the airfield. All cars parked on the left of each space, leaving the right hand side free for picnic chairs and blankets. It was Shuttleworth's … Continue reading Drive-In Air Show at Shuttleworth
We're at the project's half-way point and several items on my UFO list have been ticked off. Day 100 - 2020Day 50 - 2021 The second journal about my time in the RAF is complete. ๐ I can barely hold the two volumes in one hand. I had a lot of fun remembering nights out … Continue reading The 100 Day Project | Day 50
I've reached the point in the Asi Album where I'm happy to call it done. The majority of the pages are Project Life style - there are only ten traditional 12x12 spreads - and I like the look and feel of having mixed things up. ๐ The Best Friend asked me how I remembered so … Continue reading Scrapbooking in 2021 | Completing the Ascension Island Album
Regular readers will know that I don't do fussy scrapbooking (unless I'm in a class at a scrapbooking retreat) and I have a soft spot for a good old fashioned grid design. My current go-to-grid-design was first seen by me on Instagram (look for snap.scrap.repeat) - I can see it being used a lot. ๐ … Continue reading Scrapbooking in 2021 | Off The Grid
When I finished the 100 Day Project in July last year, the RAF journals weren't finished. After more than 30 days of writing, the second journal is already looking a lot fuller. Day 100 - July 2020Day 1 - January 2021 I had a lot of fun writing about the fashions of the late 1980s … Continue reading 100 Day Project | One Month In
The creatives behind the 100 Day Project have decided to go early this year, feeling that something positive to look forward to over the Winter of 2021 could only be a good thing. Day 1 is Sunday, 31 January, because the 1st February is a Monday and itโs hard to start a project on a … Continue reading The 100 Day Project | 2021
Week 37: Everything this week was centered around The Boy Child returning to school ... ๐ Two other highlights were another haircut (which I'm never taking for granted ever again) and a visit to Sywell for a day hanging out with The Brother. Week 38: I picked up the latest offering from J K Rowling … Continue reading Project Life Revisited | Weeks 37 and 38
Less than 10 minutes' walk from London's Oxford Circus is the beautiful Portland Place, Marylebone. The design of the road is more in keeping with the wide boulevards of Paris. The street was laid out in the 1770s and is thought to be so wide (33 metres/110 feet) as to not obscure the views of … Continue reading Weekday Walk | Portland Place
The Polish Embassy in London is currently hosting a free exhibition about the many Poles who flew with the RAF and helped defend Britain from the Luftwaffe in the summer and autumn of 1940. With the current Covid-19 restrictions regarding public gatherings , the 20-panel exhibit hangs on the railings of the embassy. The story … Continue reading Polish Airmen in the Battle of Britain | 80th Anniversary Exhibition at the Polish Embassy
September means that the Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness is approaching. It also means that Shimelle is running her annual class, Learn Something New Every Day.As with the previous few years, Iโm recording what Iโve learned throughout September here. Day 11: Walking the 4 miles to school and back is not a bad way to begin the day. Day … Continue reading Learn Something New Every Day | September 2020 | Days 11-15
