Entries by alaradesigns@gmail.com

Things that make you go Aaaaarrrghh……..

So who woulda thunk setting up a website if you’re not a website designer could be so hard? In the long list of things that make me want to throw my computer through the window (it has to be through the glass  for that satisfying double-destruction effect. An open window won’t do), trying to select […]

Candie Girl

Views from the amazing Candie Gardens in Guernsey. This is a perfect oasis in the middle of St. Peter Port. It also features a lovely fish pond full of aquatic plants which clean the water, a rose and lavender garden which has the most incredible scents and a resident family of the cleverest crows I’ve […]

Should I stay or should I go?

London vs Guernsey I’ve just been offered a job in Guernsey. Having always sworn that I would never move out of London, unless it’s to go to an even bigger,  more intense city, I find myself re-considering my stance after seeing videos and pictures of the latest tube strike. (photos: Evening Standard, The Guardian) I […]

Lovely Carol & the Herm Island Rotisserie

Meet the lovely Carol, uber-English Rose who has managed to burn her face while watching her husband in the Herm boat race: Despite slathering herself repeatedly with industrial quantities of suntan lotion and wearing a hat the size of a wagon wheel she still got burnt, with both the wind and the sun contributing to […]

Pastoral Rhapsody

Walking in the woods, fully equipped with the only essential needed– caramel-flavoured Mr Whippy ice-cream. Brave new world that has such wonders in it, to borrow a phrase. Now, if only scientists could make some progress in providing us with the jet-propulsion boots promised to us in cartoons/sci-fi magazines decades ago, the world would be […]