Month: May 2011

P365 – Day 151 sending an email

Juniordwarf hasn’t played with a lot of technology. He can operate his little CD player and the DVD player (with a nervous parent or two supervising). I gave him a old computer keyboard that he does his ‘work’ on. (He doesn’t say what his work actually is; it’s just...

P365 – Day 150 keg of sound

A few weeks ago Slabs bought a case of beer. There was a promotion running at the bottle shop to win an iPod dock/speaker in the form of a keg of said beer. You got an entry into the draw with every case you bought. As you do with...

P365 – Day 149 Deyrah Dexter

Today’s post is an unexpected set of photos for Frogpondsrock’s Sunday Selections project. This weekend was starting to look like another one of those weekends where I spent most of it moping around the house. I’ve got another cold, which seems to just be a continuation of the last...

P365 – Day 148 turn your ears on please (28/05/2011)

Slabs and I are often entertained by Juniordwarf playing out various scenarios from his school day. One of his recent favourites is to announce that it’s now story time and one of us (me, usually) has to come and sit on the mat. He then sets up his chair...

P365 – Day 146 let me diarise that

Most of the things I’ve read about time management and organising say that having a diary is essential to getting your life under control. I have one. I wrote in it once, on 6 January. The books also say that you have to actually use the diary. That means...

P365 – Day 145 it’s all too much

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how I’d come to the realisation that ‘life is now’. It’s not something that happens once you’ve worked out what you want to do and how you’re going to do it. Although I was feeling pretty unwell that day, I appreciated...

P365 – Day 144 the final cooking class

Today was the last of Juniordwarf’s four cooking classes. We made meatballs, fruit skewers and a very creamy berry dessert. Juniordwarf was very proud of his fruit skewer, even though he ended up eating more marshmallows than fruit. Left: “Oh no, Mum’s taking more photos This IS asmile, Mum.”...

P365 – Day 143 another rainy day

In which I post yet more photos of the mountain shrouded in cloud 12.20 pm 3.30 pm and share photos of the amazing double rainbow that we saw this afternoon from our office window. It really was beautiful and the photos taken through the window can’t do it justice....

P365 – Day 142 lettuces

A good thing about letting lettuces go to seed is that a bit later on you get new lettuces. In the bricks that are holding up the garden beds. And sometimes, exactly where you want them. Right next to a self-sown spring onion. Who needs to buy seeds?...