I made it outside again today. I had dental surgery a week and a half ago, with an infection/abscess developing afterwards, so it’s only been a couple of days since I have been relatively pain free again. Last week I made it out before the abscess got too bad, and helped bring a pallet of…
Snowdrops
Fresh snowdrops for my windowsil. They cover the front garden. I feel less bad about picking the ones from where the path will go, because I need to dig those bulbs up and transplant them anyway. The world keeps turning. The sun keeps rising. Everywhere human may be in total chaos but the earth does…
Catching the silver linings
Few years ago I journalled regularly on one of my blogs called “catching the silver linings” – because no matter how bleak things felt, I needed to have a happy space to retreat to with the beautiful moments or things that I could notice about a day. It became a habit that I’m a little…
The sun shone!
So we went outside. I wrote on my whiteboard last night what I hoped to do today and, even though by the time everyone had surfaced and eaten and cleared up and got dressed it was past midday, I got Erika’s outdoor clothes ready for the boys to help her into and headed outdoors by…
Black and White
I realised I forgot to share my black and white photo challenge pictures so here they are all together.
Magical
I’m desperately trying to stave off a total nosedive into burnout but last night I decided that today I would Go Outside. To collect conkers. It was as good a reason as any. It’s forecast heavy rain tomorrow so today was The day to get outside. And we did. The kids all got new winter…
Life in black and white 1-10
My mum (thanks, mum) challenged me to join in with a ten-day black and white daily photo challenge. No people, no words. So I thought I would give it a go. I curate my life through photos, not that I’ve posted any here for a long time (the need to write something to go with…
July 6th 2019
It rained overnight so it’s been a non-nettle weeding day today. Plenty of cleavers to pull out, plenty of herb robert, and plenty of other weeds and stray grasses. In amongst all the chaos in this little patch is my walking onions, some purple sprouts, purple poppies which I did not plant but I love…
Growing Things – Plans…
I may not write “updates” very often but I realise I write in my paper journal more. I thought I’d keep some of it on here too. Current windowsil seedlings, germinated / successful: 32 fig seedlings 4 runner beans 12 kale (cavolo nero 4 peas 21 sweetcorn 2 cucumber 7 butternut squash 2 courgette 5…
Nature Tapestry Looms
Today we’ve been enjoying the sunshine even though it’s quite chilly, and making some nature tapestry looms. I can’t remember where I found the idea for this but it’s pretty simple: tie four sticks together to make a square or rectangle, then loop string around to create the loom. Here’s ours: This first one is…
Fredlundhus 