One grey afternoon in January after a long morning at church, the following conversation happened in our house. Me: I've been thinking about our holiday next week. Nathan (cautiously): right... Me: How about we don't go to Oxford? How about we just get a nice cottage not too far away instead? Nathan: What? We agreed [...]
Poppy Gone Pixie!
Hello! Greetings from a rather cold-eared Poppy! It's a week since the big chop, and I'm very much enjoying having short hair, especially as I have to spend so much less time drying it! But it would be the week it snowed when I decided to have a drastic change of hair style, wouldn't it? I've [...]
Chop Chop!
In a week's time, I am going to look very different. My hair that I started growing when I was 19 is going to be chopped off for charity! It's going to be super short, pixie style in fact, so one of my jobs for this week is to buy a big, warm, fluffy bobble [...]
Three ways to reuse Christmas cards
To me, one of the worst things about taking down the Christmas decorations is throwing away the cards. As my Dad said in his wedding speech, 'it turns out that Poppy is an absolute hoarder'. I would just love to keep every card! What with all those lovely messages from family and friends, the pretty [...]