Archive for April, 2007

I totally want a Little Twin Stars credit card! Apply before December 2007 and you get a Little Twin Stars toaster oven that imprints the twins on the bread. Who doesn’t need one of those? Mevas also make credit cards with the following on: Miffy, afro ken, Astro Boy, minna no tabo

If you are good at knitting you might like to have a go at making some penguin jumpers for poorly penguins who get trapped in oil. This story is two years old but the need for jumpers is ongoing.

Link via whipup.net

This is my favourite phtotgraph of my Nanny and Grandad taken on their golden wedding anniversary.

This weeekend we travelled back to Otley in Yorkshire for my Nan’s funeral. Lots of the extended family came to the service which was held at Rawdon Crematorium. One guest had just flown from a holiday in Thailand the night before and was greeted with the news that his sister-in-law had passed away. He got to the UK at midnight and had to wake up the next morning at 5am to drive up to Yorkshire. Despite the circumstances it was nice to see the whole family.

My parents spent the weekend here with us in Chester and we had a tasty meal out at Fatcats and visit to Port Sunlight on Sunday.

Port Sunlight is a model village on the Wirral that was built by William Hesketh Lever in the late 19th century to house his workers that worked in the Lever Brothers soap factory (now part of Unilever). Lever was a philanthropist that cared about his workers, building them good size houses with reasonable rents that were in stark contrast to the usual slum housing for factory workers. He also provided schools, libraries and various societies for self-improvement. Lever gave workers a weeks paid holiday and a pension which was unheard of at the time. Port Sunlight contains 900 Grade II listed buildings and each block of houses were designed by a different architect. (photos to follow)

Sadly on Monday morning we received the news that my poorly Nan (who’d been living her last months in a nursing home) died. I don’t think she ever really got over my Grandad’s death from 2 years ago. Healthwise, she certainly went downhill since then.

We got given a DAB digital radio for Christmas which I enjoy listening to when I do the washing-up. I generally tune in music stations though Radio 4 is good too. Here are the best songs of the moment:

Air Traffic Control – Charlotte
The Killers – Read my mind
The Gossip – Standing in the way of control
Paolo Nutini – New shoes

* get more medication
* buy oragnic but cheap goji berries
* order a spring/summer coat
* research hotels for Tokyo/Kyoto
* find vegetarian restaurants in Tokyo/Kyoto
* explore making atc/altered art
* mail out current swaps – magazine swap and cup of tea and magazine swap
* washup
* write OU essay on structure and agency
* mop the kitchen floor
* clean flat for Easter visit from Mum and Dad
* hang out washing and pray that it doesn’t rain
* drink copious amounts of tea
* book meal at Fat Cats for Saturday night