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Cat and the City
catjaybee.blogspot.com
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Eclectic musings from a girl about London town. Cricket, films, food, buses, walking London's streets, river, parks and bridges, card-making and all sorts of other stuff that grabs my attention.
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Weekend (Summer) Winners: Part 2

So, just as Englands winter of cricket ended, the English "summer" of cricket began. The first day of the County Championship was Thursday 5 April 2012 and it dawned, dull, damp and cold … so...

09 apr 12

Weekend (Winter) Winners: Part 1

At last - long last - England has secured a Test match win this winter. And, somehow, despite all the agony and disappointment, it seems worth waiting for. Not least, I guess, because by doing so, En...

09 apr 12

Two out of Three Aint Bad?

So Englands tour "of" Pakistan - in the UAE - has concluded, and England has won two out of the three components. As the great Mr Loaf sang "Two out of Three Aint Bad". And, on the su...

28 feb 12

Crafty Types

Still in a mood to combine crafting with typography, following on from my Thank You! and January Blues entries for the Get Funky! challenges, and building on the huge inspiration from Simon Garfields...

31 jan 12

January Blues

When I started thinking about this months Get Funky! January Blues challenge, I still had last months Thank You! challenge in mind, particularly the typography that Anice had used on the freebie pape...

21 jan 12

Thank You!

I loved the Funky Hand freebie backing paper that Anice designed for this months Get Funky! Thank You! challenge as soon as I saw it in mid-December. I had intended to get going on my card ...

13 jan 12

Reflections on a Year of Cricket

Well, theres no contest - or suspense - about my best cricket moment of 2011, but it has been a great cricket year for me and there are plenty of other great moments and memories - many of them "...

31 dec 11

Twelve Crafters Crafting (Part 2)

Having fairly quickly knocked off the first part of this months Get Funky! challenge, set by Jackie of the marvellous Funky Hand design team, I struggled rather to complete the second part. My non-Ch...

13 dec 11

Twelve Crafters Crafting

OK, first of all, "thanks" (kind of …) to Jackie of the marvellous Funky Hand design team for this months challenge. As if crafters didnt have enough to do at this time of year with making ca...

21 nov 11

Amble into Autumn

This months Get Funky! crafting challenge has the theme of "Autumn". This seemed perfectly appropriate and very appealing, as Ive been enjoying the autumn this year so much. It feels that its...

13 nov 11

Pink and Green

Interesting colour combinations are one of the most enjoyable aspects of card-making for me. The inspiration for them comes from so many sources: the preferences of the person the card is for, the co...

30 oct 11

Number One Team Whitewash

Hard to feel able to do justice to the England cricket teams achievements during the recently concluded series of Tests against India. Perhaps a collection of a few of my best memories - in words and...

27 aug 11

Squaring the Circle

Good weather, cricket and a holiday have distracted me from card-making for too long.  With Surrey out of the Twenty20 and the UK summer reverting to the usual cool, damp and dull weather, stayi...

18 jul 11

Scooping the Sweepstake

On a day when Mr Ramprakash passed 35,000 first class runs, and went 39th on the all-time list, I had my own, albeit it comparatively miniscule, success: my second ever betting win. (See Grand Ambiti...

25 may 11

Canalway Cavalcade

The Royal Wedding/May Day public holiday weekend saw Londons Little Venice hosting the 2011 Canalway Cavalcade.  Having enjoyed several canal boat family holidays, and always keen to visit any o...

13 may 11

The Ashes Revisited (1981)

One film about cricket being shown at the cinema is an unusual event but this week there have been two: Fire in Babylon and From the Ashes.  Remarkable.  Both are documentaries that make ex...

13 may 11

The Ashes Revisited (2010/11)

This week, the documentary film From the Ashes allowed us to revisit Englands 1981 Ashes victory.  Last week, however, it was last winters win that I was reliving.  And in the actual, rathe...

13 may 11

Supporting Surrey to Success (Twice)

The first one-day match of the season for Surrey on Sunday saw Scotland welcomed as the opposition at The Oval.  Not the most competitive of matches, with, thankfully, little need for nail bitin...

03 may 11

Busk-a-Long-a-Bil ly

As London recovered from yesterdays Royal Wedding, Billy Bragg invited those still standing who could sing or strum to bring along their voices and guitars and join him for a Big Busk outside the Roy...

30 apr 11

A Simple Plan Works (Temporarily)

After weeks of deprivation, cricket returned to London today.  Moreover, it was the London derby: Middlesex against Surrey at The Home of Cricket.  I was so excited as I made my way to St J...

27 apr 11

Riding Route #93

A few weeks ago, an elderly friend - in my mind, my pseudo-great aunt (PGA) - told me a story about travelling on a Number 93 bus in London during the Second World War.  She and her husband had ...

26 apr 11

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