{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.
Read More This MomentThe 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 […]
Read More Making Ourselves at HomeThe 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 […]
Read More Transition TimeIn 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 […]
Read More Hair Today Gone TomorrowOur 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 […]
Read More Eggs!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 […]
Read More Our GirlsAfter Christmas came the birthday…and this year Kazuo had it all figured out. Birthdays involved a party which consisted of friends (thankfully we could finally muster up a couple of lovely ones with whom we have recently had the joy of becoming acquainted), balloons, his birthday banner and a cake with candles: I decided to […]
Read More How We Celebrated Two Great Years…Our wee guy is two today. Two lovely long years of learning (in a very ad hoc manner at times) how to be parents…and watching him go from being a bit rubbish and gurgly and endearing and sometimes a little terrifyingly needy and so so cuddly and incredible to really quite entertaining and capable and […]
Read More Two YearsNew Year Happiness everyone! It seemed that once we hung the decorations on the tree, the holidays simply overwhelmed us. I am not one for spending too much time online when there is a house full of people…so I have taken a little hiatus. But here is another wonderful new year full of possibility, so […]
Read More Welcome to A New YearOur driveway – like many others in these parts – has turned into an ice rink, and so the treacherous journey to the road is perhaps the worst part of any outing at the moment. This did slow our efforts to bring Christmas to the house this year…we set out and abandoned the tree-purchasing venture […]
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50 things for 50 