Posted in Garden, Home on July 30, 2007 | 5 Comments »
D & I were looking at our yard yesterday while nursing a cup of coffee. It really is the smallest, most uneven and stupidest waste of floor area. However, there is the potential to make a terrace, a really usable garden room, of 15′ x 10′. And who wouldn’t jump at a challenge like that! [...]
Posted in Family, Travel on July 23, 2007 | No Comments »
.. looking at the new header pic makes me remember nice things about the holiday so it couldn’t have been all bad. And I did bring back a huge bottle of my favourite hierbas ibicencas which is a digestif liqueur made almost entirely of fennel with other herbs thrown in. It’s deliciosus.
Moving on, we had [...]
Posted in Work on July 20, 2007 | No Comments »
At work as if I’d never left and the unbelievable rain is hammering unrelentingly on the roof. So much to do. Strangely, this does not faze me. I’m on top of it all. The house is clean. The kid is organised and back at nursery. I’m so grateful the finally be back into the routine [...]
Posted in Travel on July 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
So back from the Island of Lost Souls once again.
It was great to see the family. Hark at the ‘but’ coming, like a runaway train careering towards the hapless damsel pinioned to the tracks.
I shall not expand on this, except to say that Rowan had a splendiferous time, meeting his cousins, eating three dinners every [...]
Posted in Baby Musings on July 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Answer: sleep. Except if you live here!
R has spent the last few nights going down really well at 6.30pm and getting up really well at 3am. And that, my friends, is the head and front of his offending. One of us has to get up with him. He’s totally awake, and there’s no possibility of [...]
Posted in Family, Feeling Blue, Friends on July 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Well, one thing that being sick teaches you is who your friends are.
Mine have been marvellous, caring and attentive and have saved me so much bother by jumping in and helping me at every turn, sending flowers and cards, running errands, allowing me to whinge at them and generally being marvellous.
One exception (who will know who [...]
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