Tag: Saturday snippets
Saturday snippets 30 March 2014
{Shopping} for clothes for tomorrow. I’m wearing grey. Big is going in red and yellow. {Making} a list and actually sticking to it. What helped was planning out roughly what I needed to be doing when. The evening still got away from me but I got much more done than normal. {Shopping} for food. I’ve…
Saturday Snippets 15 February 2014
{Cooking} spaghetti bolognese. A big batch. Probably 4 meals worth. {Eating} something else entirely. At a pub. A meal out. Wow. (It was a very good burger since you ask. ) {Drinking} Adnams broadside on draft. {Feeling} like an individual instead of a role. {Discussing} politics and economics, taxation and basic income. {Reading} a very…
Saturday snippets 7 December 2013
{Not celebrating} my birthday. Day after camp, 4 children with colds, think I’ll try again next week. {running} slowly along the sea front and marvelling at the destruction. Pieces of the new sea defences, bigger than my fist spread across the beach and the prom. Inches of sand so that running along the prom felt…
Saturday Snippets 2 November 2013
{Appreciating} having a teen daughter who can cope with sour milk by making pancakes for breakfast instead, meaning I could still go on a run before shopping. {Running} not round the point though as the tide was in. 3.4 miles. 39 minutes. {Discovering} via twitter that in an emergency liberal application of talc makes it…
Saturday snippets 24 August 2013
{Sewing} before breakfast, sleeves onto jacket. Have finally worked out where I went wrong and have a plan for the next jacket with a different sleeve shape. {Learning} to felt a hat. {Eating} pottage and frumenty and stewed apples. {Sheltering} from the rain. {Experiencing} community. {Missing} dry feet! {Savouring} my last trip to 1559 for…
Saturday snippets 17 August 2013
{Baking} marrow and chocolate cake. {Driving} across country {Eating} sharing food {Drinking} tea and red wine {Facilitating} minecraft. (I don’t get it. Does anyone over the age of about 14?) {Following} a toddler. In and out of the party, around the garden, on to the trampoline. {Partying} with lots of home ed friends. {Building} with…
Saturday snippets 21st July 2012
{reading} Dragonsblood (Dragons of Pern)by Todd McCaffrey. Read some majorly negative reviews on goodreads, but I thought it was rather nice to have a new Pern novel with something resembling a plot and some actual characters instead of cardboard cut outs. {listening} beautiful south, carry on up the charts. May be the definition of easy…
Saturday snippets 26 May 2012
{reading} Carole Matthews: Summer Daydreams, and ico guidelines on cookies. {listening} how to lose your baby fat, thinking slimmer (review). {failing} with cloth nappies (how many changes of clothes today??) {succeeding} with running, fifth run, another 0.83 miles notched up. {watching} fantastic Mr fox (and thinking seriously odd film). {starting} bedroom excavation. {sewing} still sewing!…
Saturday snippets 19th May
{enjoying} sun, sea and sand with family visitors. {eating} icecream. And roast chicken. Maybe some cauliflower cheese, if the oven ever heats up. {reading} my own tweet in the cybher 2013 advertising email. {feeling} happy.
