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A mouse in the house (and how to get rid of it) 12 Apr 2012 | 10:28 am
Very early this morning I woke to sounds that - for a few wonderful moments - I thought might mean nothing more than an expensive repair to my dishwasher. There were poppings and scrapings and clinki...
Curator - of a cottage 31 Mar 2012 | 12:01 am
Do you remember the cottage I visited last summer? I wrote about that visit here, and also about a special chair that lives there. Well, guess what? It is now mine. Until some papers passed under ...
DIY hall closet organizer 22 Mar 2012 | 05:15 am
You know those lovely craft projects for organizing your front hall table or wall with a place for keys and mail and tissues and umbrellas and reusable shopping bags and so on? Yeah, must be nice to ...
The downside of decluttering 19 Mar 2012 | 10:25 am
Everybody wants to organize their space these days - whole magazines and stores dedicated completely to organization. Remember when people had far too little to be bothered 'organizing' stuff? (I d....
Cutting up some wool 12 Mar 2012 | 08:55 am
I don't seem to be sewing much now that I have a new machine, but I certainly am cutting. Every few days for a few weeks now, I've spent an hour or so slicing up my stash of wool sweaters into tidy l...
When the grass isn't greener 8 Mar 2012 | 05:23 pm
When you have a problem you have two choices: a/ fix it b/ ignore it. Sometimes the emotional upheaval of the problem is a problem in itself, which leaves you with two choices: a/ talk about it b...
A six-sentence story for tax season 3 Mar 2012 | 05:41 am
A girl slightly dizzy from too much tea stood alone in a scary room. The table in front of her was invisible under stacks of paper; so was the piano, and the buffet, and several chairs. Now that i.....
The Six-Sentence Story 3 Mar 2012 | 05:32 am
A small friend asked for help in writing stories assigned as homework. Here is the exercise I supplied: The Six-Sentence Story 1. Tell who is in the story. 2. Tell where the story is set. 3. Somethi...
Best ever parcel delivery 2 Mar 2012 | 07:28 am
Okay: who would not want to be startled out of a tea-pouring reverie by the thump of this between their two front doors? I went fabric shopping at Alewives. Hey, a girl's got to have something to pu...
Cardboard pencil cases 26 Feb 2012 | 09:42 am
Lately I've needed to have a couple of freshly sharpened pencils in my purse, which has been a Problem. Because frankly, does anybody really want graphite marks in the purse lining, or holes poked th...
