This was a weekend for reasserting myself and regrouping. Taking down time to be outside and enjoying the fragments of beauty I have in my space. Spending time with myself and chewing over what isn’t right at the moment. Building some friendships. I’ve run a lot. I passed a milestone today in running 24/26 minutes, […]
A Shelfie Ideal.
I’ve been tickled by the idea of this competition, a ‘shelfie’ of your home, the shelf you like the most, with the things you like the most on it. I had high hopes of even actually putting up the shelf I’ve been trying to get round to for 6 months to do it. Unfortunately chicken […]
Baggage and depression. It's all in the edit.
We all have our baggage. We all walk out the doors some days with a spot on our chin, feeling fat, frumpy, uninteresting and small. Our clothes fit wrong and we haven’t achieved what we want and the kids are cross and worrying us and we’ve not written the novel in our head or got […]
Gendered Play. It's just an observation.
I’m bringing up a boy. It’s new to me (more or less) and he’s different. I have no idea if he is a typical boy, or atypical or where he fits in in the grand scheme of play. I’ve only watched girls closely before and my experience of boys (many of whom I know pretty […]
Soothing Stitches: The Dartmoor Crochet Blanket.
I spent a significant portion of last year and the early part of this year putting together a blanket for my bedroom, a promise against the day when my bed will belong to me and Max again and my floor has less to do with a washing sorting area and more to do with the […]
Peacock Rio Carnival Mask.
There isn’t much in the way of football mania here and goodness knows, there is no longer much in the way of education going on. I’ve thrown off the fun of crafting our way through knowledge for the misery of uncovering the threadbare patches in topics needed for imminent GCSEs and trying to patch them […]
A Pox on the House.
Poor old Bene has been suffering from Chicken Pox this week. I say suffering, but in fact he’s been remarkably well with it really; we thought we were going to get it a few weeks ago when my nephew was here for a day the day before he went dotty but he missed it then, […]
Curtain woes.
The windows have been curtainless since our decorating bonanza earlier in the year. Time being the fickle thing it is, I’ve not had time to alter it and anyway, I liked the clean look. This weekend I decided to put up poles (for which you may read ‘beg that Max put up poles’) and try […]
Connecting. They were children.
Parenthood is a funny old thing. (Understatement.) It never settles in one place, I find. Perhaps that is having lots of them or perhaps it isn’t. One thing I can’t know is how it would feel to have not had lots of children. When Fran was little I used to stare at her as she […]
Just Like Us #WomenAndGirls #EveryNewborn
As the mother of 4 girls, as the mother of a boy who never came home from the maternity hospital and as the mother of a boy I have to raise to respect and support the women in his life, it will come as no surprise to anyone to know that rights for girl and […]
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