Category: Archive
Friday reads
The shepherd’s crown. Terry Pratchett. Last Discworld novel. (Yes, I have tissues. ) Friday food. Tomato and mozzarella panini at the range, after a very successful dentist trip with the younger children. Friday evening – all uniform shirts and trousers washed, dried and hung up. I doubt that will ever happen again. Week 1 complete.
Ever needed Emergency Happiness
This is my #emergencyhappiness box sent by Viking (Viking_chat on twitter) thanks to Marylin from SoftThistle Life 🙂 https://instagram.com/p/69eAU0tp34/ I was having a rough week before our #reenactment break, and a friend nominated me for an emergency happiness box. It arrived while I was away, and then I popped it in a bag as we set…
Sisters
My beautiful girls. We were at my sister’s wedding renewal vows, 10 years after her wedding. My younger two are similar ages now to what the older two were back first time around, so there were some very odd deja vu moments through the day. And a few bittersweet moments too. As when we raised…
Where do you think you'll be in 5 years time?
How about in 10? 20? In 20 years time my youngest child will be 23 and presumably have flown the nest. My eldest will be 35 (eek!) and I guess we could well be grandparents. It’s hard to look that far into the future and come up with plans, and that’s with the benefit of…
Fencing. And drawing.
Something about small children, their bodies, their movement. It’s fascinating. Plus, if I can draw them, I can draw picture books. (Well, if I come up with words as well 😉 )
Around the blogosphere – what I'm reading this week.
Starting with a very personal and thought provoking post on parenting from Alice Langley on her new Project Wanderlust blog – through their eyes as well as this, also on parenting and positive attitudes from TigerlillyQuinn “I want them to be able to look back and know just how thankful I was everyday to be…
Rattletrap car by Phyllis Root and Jill Barton
& Once upon a time when we had two children rather than four, we would quite often gather as a family for bedtime stories. And one of our absolute favourites was Rattletrap Car (Amazon link). It is pretty much the perfect picture book, gorgeous colourful pictures, lots of repetition and a fun (if implausible) story…
Back up your blog.
I’ve spoken at a number of conferences, given technical advice online for years, and my number one tip is always BACK UP your blog. It’s your content, you’ve put time and effort into it. You wouldn’t want it to just disappear. So keep a copy. You all back up your blogs, right? On blogger and…
