Vonerable

Testing

Testing. Testing. Again.

 

Gathering intel

       

There is an upside to having to supervise so many hours of swimming in our pool over summer: all those housey mags I've been stockpiling are finally getting read. Pages are being torn out. Ideas filed away. Colours and textures noted. My current favorites: cowhide, woven wall coverings (see http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/182515/list/Warm-Up-Your-Walls-With-Woven-Wallcovering), pom pom fringed blankets, white floorboards, and linen drapes that trail on the floor. What's your 'style of the month'?

 

Jaws Invasion

My Mac has been attacked by the spinning beach ball of doom and inefficiency. Sooooo, no photos, again, coz Typepad can't manage to publish them on iPad. Did I mention that already? Random things in my world today: ~rats chewing through our concrete and carpet underlay ~a friend who brings sunshine through the door with her ~freaking out about swimming at the beach now that I'm watching the very-badly-acted-by-today's-standards-but-still-terrifying Jaws ~a husband who is feeling crook enough to ditch the paperwork to watch Jaws (and we're talking a seriously disciplined fella) -children who, despite having very few demands placed on them, are driving me bonkers with their whingeing and bickering ~discovering the fabulous game Abalone and rediscovering Cluedo ~finding excuses to use my new steaming iron (is that what they're called?) ~dried cranberries ~unimpressed by my second pair of $99 Witner sandals breaking ~scheming ways to incorporate grass green and canary yellow into our decor ~excited about the arrival of some really-oh truly-oh sink into outdoor furniture I'm boring me. I'm going to devote my full attention now to Jaws and Invasion. No one watches one show at a time any more, right?

Vitamins and Minerals

Holidaying at the beach should be free and it should be compulsoury.

 

 

 

We loved it so much we're planning to repeat it all in two weeks. I couldn't be more excited or more surprised - I've never been a fan of the sand, sun and water thing. But a few days of seeing my little vonerables building sand metropolises (yes, that is officially the plural form and I'm sticking by the most authoratiative Mickey D on this), splashing in the shallows, booogie boarding, swimming and poking about for shells, and I'm in love with the beach all over again. It happens every summer. Beach is the new medicine.

 

Testing

Hello Typepad app on my iPad, are you working? You see, I'm on holidays and I was hoping you might do a few posts for me. Maybe with pictures? No? Oh well. Just words then. And will you promise to actually publish the words I write? Not to lose them like my iPhone app? Good. It was so discouraging to lose two, long posts in a row typed with one finger on my phone. I didn't want to see either of you for a while after that. If you work with me tonight all that could change. I foresee a long and happy partnership. But I'll always be sad that you won't publish my photos. That's harder to overlook.