Ok… so I am blogging daily this month, and as the month draws to a close, I find myself becoming a even more banal than usual – sorry. But I am a looking forward to coffee this afternoon with the girls. After months of holding the fort on the weekends while Akira bikes all over, […]
Read More CoffeeIn typical English-teacher fashion, I began reading to Kazuo before he had emerged. I gathered up a small personal library of suitable starter books for him before he arrived, and made regular trips to the local public library for supplementary reading. In the early months, I read out loud to him any time I was […]
Read More Books, Books, Books…Well, last night was a lovely evening… and somewhat of a success as far as Amnesty is concerned. Friend and members came out to support the work of Amnesty International, have a drink or two, find out about the Women of Zimbabwe Arise movement and take some art home with them. We were grateful for […]
Read More AI Art Auction – Part IIOK, I know I have mentioned this already. But today is the day of our Amnesty Art Auction. I am going to the farmer’s market/library/post office, preparing nibbles, getting early dinner and pretty much putting everything in order so that I can escape the house – leaving Dada in charge, for which I am extremely […]
Read More AI Art Auction IIt began strangely, with our car being trapped in the garage because the door opener had bust a spring overnight (in fact we heard it, and wondered what that loud bang was – weird!). We had to wait for the landlord to come and help Akira heft it open and hold it up while I […]
Read More Where Did Today Go?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 […]
Read More OceansToday 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 […]
Read More Where Have the Last Ten Months Gone?Last week I bought some fresh cranberries at the vege market. This weekend they needed finishing off – though I am already planning all the yummy things I can do with them over the winter, and plan to buy a few more bags this coming week and store some in the freezer… and of course […]
Read More Sunday PiedaySo I no longer live with the ignominy of coming from a distinctly un-soccery country – and in my extended family, that has been a deep shame, until today… by breakfast time this morning we had discovered the joyous news that 80% of the countries of our collective ethnicity (England, USA, Japan and now New […]
Read More All Whites, All Right!It took us several months to get life into enough of a rhythm that we didn’t get to the end of each day and just fall exhaustedly into bed. But once we had reached that happy place, it was obvious that we needed to reintroduce the joy of film into our lives. We had dispensed […]
Read More Film
50 things for 50 