Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Sorry I’m late posting the SHAC-Shack Celebration Giveaway! Big meeting at work, and got caught – as you do. So much to consider, so much to plan ahead! But that’s ok. You haven’t missed anything here, and if you missed the 10am show in the SHAC-Shack this morning – it was special. Dave popped in with cake; he so caught me out with the Fanfare for the Common Man. That music moves me profoundly…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Just got back from Mum and Dads. Decided last minute to drive over and spend the afternoon with them. It was either work more or visit them. Mmm… Work more. Achieve more. Two very different things actually. I had spent the whole morning thinking, “really ought to go see Mum and Dad, but have got so much to do”, “Mum is getting fed up with being in isolation – a visit would cheer her…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Paul is launching our beautiful, classy Make a Wish Die and Groovi Collection at 6pm. Illustrated by dear Mel Turner and myself. Beautiful whimsical, magical hares, hidden in the woodland. These aperture dies are superb. They have even more significance for me now then when we originally drew them! Now that we go down to the woods most days, it really is true. You cannot see the deer and the rabbits until you stand…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Just on my way out to the woods with a bag, to go a-gathering blackberries fpr pudding tonight. There are loads this year! Yesterday we went walking early in the morning after a downpour, so they were even washed for us! One for pudding, one for me. One for pudding, one for me. I do love blackberries, don‘t you? Just feast your eyes on this wonderful snapshot of nature. Heather, fern – even breakfast….
Hi there. Thanks for popping in, and thanks for watching HOCHANDA today if you did. The LIVE Skype is most definitely the way forward. It feels almost as though we are in the room with the presenter – but we’re still safe at home. Which is where I have to stay if I am going to be able to visit my parents and look after them. That’s my choice, of course. Those 2-way Christmas Baubles of ours are such a…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. It’s been a challenging day today, or should we say a growing day. Yes. A Growing Day. I‘ve grown loads. No water, and no microphone No water is just an inconvenience which will be resolved, but out of our hands. No microphone. The lapel mic died. Just stopped speaking to the computer. Jim tried his best remotely, but to no avail. So unfortunately, the SHAC-Shack was very quiet today. In fact, it was SILENT!…
Hi there!Thanks for popping in. Too hot today. Not able to think properly, so shall retreat to a cool kitchen once I’ve written to you. Even the tits are in hiding! The blue tits girls, the blue tits!! Behave!!! But the butterflies and dragonflies are out in force, which is lovely… Mel’s garden bird stamps (thus named because we weren’t allowed to say tits on telly), are among my favourites. As I mentioned this morning in the SHAC Shack, we…
Hi there. Thanks for popping in. Can’t stop long. The wasp buster came out this afternoon to get rid of the big wasp’s nest just in the roof above my head here, and they’re pretty angry now, so I won’t hang around too long! Should be fine by tomorrow morning, in good time for our SHAC Shack session! Anyway, I am writing extra fast here, so I can beat a hasty retreat! Did you catch the first hour of Linda’s…
Hi there Thanks for popping in. Ventured into Lidl’s on the way home from the office. Put my mask on and went a-shopping for my parents. It’s the first time I’ve been in an actual supermarket since March, unless the Marks n Sparks attached to the petrol station counts. It doesn’t. The wierdest thing is that I was really excited! Happy even. To be able to walk along an aisle in a shop and select what I wanted from the…
Hi there. Thanks for poppeting in again! Oh boy oh boy! What a launch!! Proud Mum moment here. I knew you’d like these little beauties by Marina, and we made so many stamps! Hats off to Jason and the team for pulling this mega project off. It has been amazing. And just what the doctor ordered at Clarity. So thank you thank you, for watching, supporting and investing in us again. We have more of these little beauties in the…