Becky's Cosy Corner

2010年7月10日土曜日

Mum and Dad's house

Recently, I've spent some weekend days at Mum and Dad's house. Mum works for a pre-school (幼稚園) so she has to do lots of craft-work with the kids. Last week the theme was The Wild West. I really loved my Mum's design for a Native American face. It made me smile:

This is Mum and Dad's garden. It always looks beautiful in the summer - full of green leaves and flowers. But at the moment, the grass is really dry (no rain for days!):

New camera!

Hello, sorry (AGAIN) for the big pause. Thanks to Shun in Japan, I have a lovely new camera (lucky lucky me) so I can show you some more of my summery life (lucky lucky you!). Since the middle of June the weather has been good (bansai!) which is very exciting for British people because we usually expect summer weather to be quite bad. At the end of June it was my sister's birthday. There were two parts to it:
a) we all went to her local park for a picnic :)
b) we all went back to her house to watch England lose to Germany in the World Cup :(
So it was a happy balance of emotion.

2010年6月8日火曜日

And now . . .

And now . . . my camera is broken!
But life is good and I'm really enjoying being an M and Co shop-girl :)
Hope you are all very well, Japanese friends. I think of you very often! Happy rainy season to you!

Helsinki Eriko!

My lovely Japanese friend Eriko came to see me! Via Helsinki! She stayed for 3 nights and we had a fantastic weekend together and did lots of things in Sevenoaks and in London - eating, drinking, walking, museums, shops. And she gave me a lovely present from Finland. Thank-you for coming, Eriko! Hope your journey back to Tokyo was a good one! (Sorry I'm showing your photo without asking you if it's OK.)

Tracy Thorn!

This is Tracy Thorn on BBC Breakfast TV last week. If you know the group Everything But The Girl (EBTG) then you will know her. She hasn't recorded anything for a long time because she's been taking care of her children, but she's coming back and I saw her play one of her new songs and it was really beautiful. She seemed a lovely person - very creative and positive and I felt inspired by her :)

Independent me!

Luckily, the weekend after Shun left, my sister's husband had birthday drinks in a pub so we all had a happy time drinking, eating and playing with Baby Edie. I couldn't feel lonely :)

Next day, Mum, Dad and I had a lovely time visiting a big old house in the countryside. It was designed and built by a friend of William Morris, and inside there were lots of William Morris fabrics and textiles. And the gardens and views were beautiful!