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 […]

Leaves

I am obsessed this week with the amazing leaves in our neighbourhood… can’t get enough of tromping through them when we go out for a walk, totally fascinated with the never-ending clean-up job in people’s yards, utterly intrigued by the big trucks and sucky-blowy machinery that the council uses to collect them from the big […]

Why We Need to Stop Adding Plastic to our Environment…

I just found a link to this heart-stopping series of images (one preview here) from The Catskill Kiwi and had to say that I was thankful to live somewhere where we do make some effort towards recycling… BUT that it is plainly not enough if we clutter up these amazing baby birds in such a […]

Autumnal Weekends

This past month was an explosion of glorious colour in our neighbourhood and across St Louis. As I sit and reflect on the busy weekends we had over the past few weeks, I am thankful for the way that trees are such a dramatic part of the landscape here in the Lou. We have ventured […]

Gratitude

I am inspired at the moment by the thoughts of the everyday wonder of ordinary life, and of trying to make a habit of being a little more thankful. This was also brought home to me last night as we sat and discussed the Science on Tap event that Akira took our friend Christine to […]