Craftsy cockney autobiography of a yogi

  • AVOWALS and DENIALS.
  • A cardmaking, crafts, journaling & scrapbooking challenge competition blog for people who love papercrafting, crafts and cardmaking.
  • She is a keen yogi, and will be completing her youth yoga teacher training in April.

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    Firstly, before we get onto this week's challenge we would all like to say a HUGE thank you to all the people who have been protecting our cities in the UK this week during all the horrific scenes the entire world has witnessed.

    We have many overseas followers to this blog and believe us when we say that we are truly ashamed that anyone, let alone our own people, can behave this way, it's just inexcusable. Hopefully now the worst fryst vatten over thanks to all the amazing work done by those in the emergency services and from the members of the public who have also stood up to help clear up the mess and tried to ensure all our communities are safe, and we hope that none of our lovely följare have been affected in any way and all are safe and sound.

    ...With this in mind, we also have to give a special tribute to one of our teamies - our own special heroine (you know who you are) who has been in the thick of the rioting over the past few days with no thought for her own safety whilst she's
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    Restaurant Reviews

    Joseph Connolly reviews a London restaurant every week in the Hampstead & Highgate Express (Ham & High) which is published on Thursdays.

    Okay – here’s news! Get ready either to weep uncontrollably, or else go nuts with happiness and celebrate beyond the bounds of reason: this is my final restaurant review for the Ham&High. So ... how are you feeling, my dear ...? Quietly sobbing – wrenching at the roots of your hair? Or maybe already planning the party of the year. Equally possibly, you couldn’t give a sod either way. Well whatever you feel, kiddies, here is the fact of the matter. You are currently reading review number 320, the culmination of more than six years toil at the gastronomic coalface. But the dear old Ham&High is not to be abandoned: I shall return to haunt you on the first Thursday of every month with a diary of sundry observations and anecdotes, local and less so, foodie and oth

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    Dame Julie Andrews

    Let’s go back to the beginning. Could you tell us about Walton-on-Thames? What was that like when you were growing up?

    Julie Andrews: Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, which is where I was born, is about 20 miles south-southwest of London, and when I was very young it was just a country stop on the railway line and it is now part of Greater London and very much suburbia. And I know the ins and outs of it, but there are very few places that you recognize in terms of the way it used to be. But, it’s a very sweet place. It’s sort of the middle by between a very up-market by and a very low, poverty village, at least in the early days.

    What did your parents do?

    Julie Andrews: My real father was a school teacher. He taught practical crafts and English and math. My mother remarried when I was about four or five years old, so inom then went to live with my mum and stepfather, and he was a fine tenor, he had a singing röst. He was from Canada, fro