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 […]
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 […]
A weekend.
This weekend involved a lot of driving ( not by me! Result!) so that my girls could spend time with friends they have known since they were babies doing this. And lining up for photos to compare size in various combinations. There was a time when these two appeared to be built in the same […]
To our eldest girl on her 16th birthday.
You are 16. Old enough to marry. Sensible enough not to. I shopped for you yesterday, finding time for trinkets on the London streets. I breathed down tears once or twice as I bought the odd mixture of toy and tinsel that befits you. Grown up. Still a girl. Young woman. Our baby. If I […]
Just a dog.
These times are more frequent lately. Flashbacks. Returning memories. A sudden glimpse of Freddie’s face in his sleeping brothers profile. A flicker of something that was gone and which is seeping back, slinking in through back doorways left unthinkingly open. I don’t try to look back. I don’t hunt for memories. I think that if […]
Heart to Heart.
Cheesy title 😉 Last week I purchased an xCut machine, a euphemistic expression for ‘decided the business needed one’. I do have great business plans for it but first I need to play 🙂 I’m not massively interested in paper crafts, though I keep meaning to do some scrapbooks but I do love felt, though […]
The elephant in the room.
It took a very long time before I stopped seeing all the triggers the world holds as personally aimed assaults on my ability to stay standing. The radio songs, the names in books, the boy baby in blue who caught my eye and smiled at me outside of what felt normal. I grew a crust […]
Soothing Stitches: Knitting again but crochet too.
It’s been quite a while since I’ve done any knitting but the opportunity to review some yarn came up recently and it was too good an opportunity to resist. The first item is a work in progress but you might have seen me Instagramming it; it’s been quite enjoyable to get back to knitting for […]
See the little angels.
I love Night Watch by Terry Pratchett. I love the story, the bittersweet twists of a man watching his own history unfold all over again. I love the world wearied character Sam Vimes has become. I love his rough morality, his honest, gritty, reluctant love for family and honour and his street ethics. I love […]
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