a last post on Easter...and the winner of my heart...

1. serendipitous find inside the church at Stoven, 2. Easter on beach Southwold, 3. snow and headstones in Stoven, 4. Mr G issuing Easter Egg Hunt directions, 5. hunting for eggs in snow, 6. huts southwold easter 2008, 7. goose egg and easter chicks, 8. huts southwold easter 2008, 9. boats southwold 2008, 10. egg hunt ON, 11. boats southwold 2008, 12. easter display 2, 13. easter display, 14. easter snow 2008, 15. easter sunday 2008 southwold, 16. unusual easter bunny 2008, 17. stoven church easter, 18. huts southwold easter 2008, 19. no need for tea cosy, 20. huts southwold easter 2008, 21. easter chick biscuit, 22. easter display goose egg and bunny, 23. in the graveyard easter sunday 2008, 24. grey pier snow easter sunday southwold 2008, 25. egg in snow suffolk easter 2008, 26. easter heart, 27. easter display 3, 28. lichen slate and snow

we went to Suffolk to visit friends for Easter, it snowed, we drank lots of tea and prosecco (as you do), ate lots of chocolate and fish (as you do too) and had an all round lovely time...a wonderful and much appreciated down time for all of us...mmmmmmm

(not quite sure why my mosaic turned out so tiny, but there you go...seems a bit ridiculous when the titles dwarf the image to such an extent but you sort of get the idea I hope)

came back late on Monday, was straight into work on Tuesday and so finally managed to pull the name out of the hat last night (or the number out of the random number generator, it being the 21st century and me being a time-pressed blogger) and the winner of my heart is...commenter no 23 hurrayic who has a lovely blog and left a lovely comment...

but thanks to everyone who commented on the last couple of posts, and indeed on all my posts ever - your comments make my heart sing, every single one of them...I would love to reply to every one individually but blogger doesn't give me details for all comments for some reason, but I do visit every blog and leave a comment where I can...

have a lovely week

miracles of easter...

The Reva Girl's easter bonnet was a big surprise (to me) and a great success, thanks to the amazing partnership of herself as designer and Mr. G (or "Mr. Genius of Millinery Engineering" as I call him these days) as main agent of construction...



Meanwhile we blew some eggs during the week and got painty today...I just had to share this creation of 2 year old Ms Bester...faberge it ain't!



When I saw her ladling the paint on I sucked my teeth and announced "it will never dry"...I was upstairs sometime later when I heard much excitement and commotion below me...rampant scampering, crazy yelping until finally I could discern them shrieking "it's a miracle...it's a miracle..."(or "mirashel"as announced by the painter herself)...yes readers...the paint had dried...

We are off to "the country" tomorrow for Easter, to that part of "the country" where sub zero temperatures and lots of snow are forecast...hmm, should make for an interesting egg hunt on Sunday morning...

have to say I am quite overwhelmed by the number of comments to the last post, in the nicest possible way of course...I've enjoyed reading them all so much...will be back on Monday or Tuesday to draw the winner...leave a comment to this post and I'll enter you too...

in the meantime, enjoy your eggs

waiting for the light...

I have made a softie...my first...and I love it...but it is so dark and grey in London and I work hours like a mole during the week (into work out of work in pitch blackness) so can't photograph it yet as the light is so awful...I will be home tomorrow so will post it then...watch this space...(her name is Mitzy, oh yes Lisa and Alan, in memory of the furkid that nearly was!)

In the meantime, I was going through my photos and found this one of the bunnies I made for the kids Easter Egg hunt last year. They sit on eggs to keep them warm you know. It made me laugh so I thought I'd pop it up here, while waiting for the light...


and here, similarly out of season but just spotted as I found the other pic, is the Easter/Birthday cake...


amazing what you can achieve with some chocolate and a couple of shredded wheat!

have I gone quite mad posting about Easter less than a month before Christmas, or am I just in severe denial? it's an interesting question...one I couldn't possibly answer...