This Moment

{this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Have a wonderful weekend. See other wonderful moments at Soule Mama.

Making Ourselves at Home

The weekend has finally arrived. It is time for a new look here at ‘Not Working’… As I mentioned earlier in the week, on Monday I enter the potentially crazy world of workinginsideandoutsidethehome. I am shying away from saying I am going back to work, since it is abundantly clear to me…and most people who […]

This Moment

What to do with lots of lovely eggs…Bacon and Egg Pie!

Last week I found this lovely little enamel bowl in Twice, a charming little store in St Andrews. It was just the perfect place to keep all our new-found egg bounty. It also prompted a friendly conversation with another BHWT hen rescuer…they are everywhere! The hens seem to be laying an average of two eggs between […]

Transition Time

The Holmes and Rahe stress scale is a list of 43 stressful life events that can contribute to illness. Some years I have gathered a pretty impressive score on this scale…Making big changes to one’s life can either be rather liberating, or downright terrifying. Strangely, although I think I am a pretty stressy, nervy, risk-averse kinda girl, I […]

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Hair Today Gone Tomorrow

In April last year we gave Kazuo his first haircut. In reality, it was merely a trim. Since then, his abundant curly locks and long eyelashes have often garnered some of the confused and silly presumptions people make about small people’s sex/gender. I think that small people who are still growing hair and recognisable adult […]

Eggs!

Our girls survived the night and a really frosty, sleety morning. We are making constant modifications to their world and ours to accomodate them and we hope that poor little Naynaynay Number Four will last the distance, she is looking very much the bottom of the newly established pecking order. But the big news this […]

Our Girls

Today we brought our rescued ex-battery hens home from the farm on which they spent the first few intensive-laying months of their lives. We found them through the wonderful work of the British Hen Welfare Trust. These are their first few moments being settled into their new house Akira assembled for them a couple of […]

Sunrise

We have been rising before the sun for some time now. Some recent mornings have been stunning. I will not mind getting up before the sun if it treats me to these kinds of displays.