Month: September 2013

30 days of lists – days 21-24

So much for a list a day! Day 21: My food pyramid I interpreted this one slightly differently, to make a list of the things I’m trying to do to improve my diet and health. Some of this is based on work by Michael Pollan, who writes some very...

30 days of lists – days 17-20

Moving on and trying not to get any further behind, I have temporarily abandoned List #16 of my 30 Days of Lists project. Here are the next four lists. Day 17: Favourite things about my home Day 18: I ask for help when . . . I think it’s...

30 days of lists – days 13-15

Welcome to the new home of pastpresentfuture. I have been thinking about switching over to WordPress for quite a while now and finally sorted myself out enough to do it this weekend. So here I am, still trying to figure out exactly what goes where, but still pleased to...

30 days of lists – days 9-12

Carrying on with the catch up theme, here are the next 4 days of 30 days of lists. Day 9: Weird stuff that makes me cry.  Someone asked me why the Melbourne Cup makes me cry. I know there is lots to dislike about the racing industry and most...

12 of 12 september 2013

Another catch up post. This time it’s September’s 12 of 12 post (see the August post for an explanation of what 12 of 12 is all about). Thursday the 12th of September and Juniordwarf woke up very mopey, and said he didn’t feel normal. We let him stay home...

30 days of lists – days 5-8

A lot has been happening, so the next few days will be catchup posts. To start with, here are the next four lists for my 30 days of lists project. (Days 1-4 are here). I’m having fun with this challenge, even though I’ve dropped a few days behind. Day...

30 days of lists – days 1-4

I recently heard about 30 Days of Lists and decided that it might be fun to join in. It’s a 30 day journalling challenge, where you get a prompt for a list every day, that you can record in any way you like. It could be as simple as...

post-election hangover

So the election is over. We’ll have a new Prime Minister, leading a party that for the most part has policies and philosophies that I’m very much opposed to, and the thought of these people being in power for the next three years scares me. To be honest, there...

hamilton show layout

On the occasions I actually sit down and do some scrapbooking, I’ve been going back to some old photos and making some fairly simple layouts just to get the pictures out of the box and into the album.Here’s one I finished recently. It’s a double layout from the 2007...