Category: Archive
VicksTricks – for when your child has a cold
With 4 children in the house, colds are a fact of life in the winter. It has got worse since Big went to school – and she’s all about the sharing, sadly. It does have to be said though that last time she brought one home, I tried out the Vicks nasal spray, and I…
A meal everyone will eat with Cypriot New Potatoes.
The holy grail of parenting/ meal planning – a meal you can serve up that everyone will eat. Doesn’t happen often in this house. I’ve got two children who are dubious about mixed/ wet foods (bolognese bearable to one, not the other). Tigerboy is relatively straightforward but likes to eat one thing at a time…
Sunday (night) snippets 22 January 2016
{feeling} tired. And tired of being tired. But apparently my inflammatory marker level (only bit of the blood test that’s back) is normal. Not that I have any idea what that means. {pushing} boundaries on drawing. Tonight I drew my sktchy portrait with a magic crayon. It was my 50th submission to the platform as…
Sunday snippets 15 January 2017
{struggling} to get back into the blogging habit. I did so well in December, but then took a Christmas break… {also struggling} with pain, exhaustion, depression? I don’t know. Hard to disentangle emotional states and their permanence or otherwise from a physical position of daily hurtingness and chronic tired. I went for a stroll around…
I think
I need to do daily blogging in the morning rather than the evening. Art in the morning probably a plan too. And exercise. Anything other than sinking into social media and frittering days away. Today has been fairly busy, local shopping, work, dentist, big town shopping with Big. It was really lovely to spend some…
Hope, a work in progress
Watercolour. I think I need to find my heavier paper, and maybe borrow Big’s hairdryer, but I’ve very much enjoyed trying something a little more challenging tonight.
A walk in the woods
Yesterday my exercise stroll was to the beach. Which wasn’t terribly scenic tbh, what will the heavy fog and edge of the world vibe it had going. Although I did quite like the lights reflecting on the water. Today I went to the woods instead. I was feeling achy and a bit sorry for myself…
Conversations with strangers
Today I took Tigerboy to London. I’ll write more about that when I’m at a keyboard and have access to the pictures, right now I want to just make a note about an odd little happening. We were outside the Natural History Museum, taking pictures by a bench. There was an older woman sitting with…
Where the day went
Yesterday I misplaced most of the day. So today I’m going to make some notes as I go to make sure that it doesn’t happen again. First alarm 7.30 – ignored. Ahem. Second alarm 8.00. Got up and spent a minute or two staring at social media, then staggered into kitchen – kettle on and…
