All Change

So a week ago, I wanted to write and tell you about the crazy night we’d had. In fact I had so many other things going on too…bubbling up and running over…and wanted to let them all blog out of me. Then it got a little hard to get to the PC. And then I […]

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. If you’re inspired to do the same, leave a link to your ‘moment’ in the comments for all to find and see. […]

Not Eating Animals So Much…

Seventeen years ago I read this book in conjunction with a community consultation on the issues surrounding World Hunger and what we could/should be doing to make a difference: I am still inspired by Frances Moore Lappe. She prompted me to refrain from eating meat as a humanitarian choice, not for health or animal rights […]

Springing Along

Once again we have been struck down. Sigh. This is the fourth illness for me in the past three months…too too much if you ask me, but we are bearing up. This time we all have ghastly, congestive colds that are pretty much slowing us all down, one at a time. Has kept me off […]

Quick Change

How quickly it all changes…suddenly it is sunny and gorgeous outside and all I want to do is run to the garden centre and start making plans for our summer growing…what little it might be. But the first priority is to just get outside and play, stumble, fall in the garden and let the wind […]

New Year

It seems a little silly to be recording my New Year’s Resolutions now, in February… But so far 2010 has kinda caught me by surprise and for a number of reasons, I have gotten off to a very slow start. So here I am, bearing in mind that it is also the start of a […]

Oceans

After doing all the post-bedtime chores tonight I only had about a 20min concentration span as it seems that this whole mobility thing has caused Kazuo to revert to his 3month old sleeping habits. This too will pass, and he still sleeps a good deal, but seems to wake more often. Sigh… am getting a […]

Where Have the Last Ten Months Gone?

Today our wee pop is ten months old. I am still thinking about the passing of the nine-months mark, and suddenly another month has passed. Those first few weeks seem to last for ever in a fog of sleep deprivation and lack of any real structure to the day. But now, although the days are […]

Monkeys

A theme has arisen in our house. It seems that we have become rather obsessed with Monkeys. When I first met Akira he was toting about notes from a Psychologist called Richard Byrne, from a book called The Thinking Ape and primates have become part of our vernacular since then. So it was not surprising […]

Chalk

We had Laura and Mateo over for dinner tonight… always a pleasure. As usual, the conversation roamed everywhere…and by the end of the night we were searching for large neolithic chalk sculptures on t’internet. Of course, the main object of curiosity is always this fellow, the Cerne Abbas giant, and he is rather spectacular: But […]