"I like to take the things people don’t see as beautiful and somehow make them beautiful."
Blogs are just about the closest thing we get online to a conversation with those we have yet to meet, so I’m just plain old thrilled to tell you that Chris Brown of Urban Prairie has gone and got himself a blog. Let’s face it there is stuff we need to know about this enigma of a man…
Oh and Chris? Though it makes me blush to say so, you are right: I am a true fan.
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In our early twenties, Mark and I were one couple in a group of four. There was us, Chris and Sue, Colin and Shirley and Michael and Emma, together in the time before babies and mortgages. Spending New Year together and grouped…
Hello Sweethearts. Here I am almost a month into my digital sabbatical and I am finally getting my groove on and pulling together all the little projects I had been hoping to tackle for ever such a long time…. The past few…
Todays page in Simple Abundance urges us to re-discover poetry, both so that we should experience our own view of the world through someone else’s eyes and so that we can for a moment taste emotions we may have forgotton through an…
Swoosh! There went another week. So I guess it really is true that life starts galloping towards the finishing line once you find yourself on the brink of middle youth… Today let me begin with two thank-you’s. First for all those of…
Oooooh I’m not a happy chicken. Today the Met office has issued a Severe Weather Warning, and overnight I will be facing my very worst fear.. the scrunchy white joy that is snow. Oh my… Now for normal people, snow offers the…
So it’s a rubbish day. My common law husband has gone AWOL, the baby will only eat "bapples" (tangerines) and it is bloody freezing considering it’s July: so thank heaven for the joy of junk! A quick scout around my usual…
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What is it about a man with tattoo's? he does have a great blog!
I have such a crush on that man….. Maybe it is because I was born in Texas and have an early attraction to bad-boy-earthy-types? *sigh* (I think he would love my red boots….:-) You have to read my last post to get it.)
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What is it about a man with tattoo's? he does have a great blog!
I have such a crush on that man…..
Maybe it is because I was born in Texas and have an early attraction to bad-boy-earthy-types?
*sigh*
(I think he would love my red boots….:-) You have to read my last post to get it.)