In a Nutshell
It’s been a turbulent and interesting year, 2009. It fairly kicked the ass of 2008, 2007, 2006 and indeed 2005 but deviated from the finishing line at the end of it … but to recap, here’s my 2009 in all its homemaking glory: January I took a big step and moved away from the area [...]
Seasonal Insanity
My lovely sister left our post-Christmas celebrations this afternoon, and the house is obscenely quiet. I keep expecting to hear an unlikely crash, thud or squeak as a reminder that I’m not crashing about alone in the cottage. Instead the silence is tomb-like and oddly magnified. There may as well be a giant neon sign [...]
Blood is thicker than water
I’ve been meaning to write a post on my un-birthday weekend for the entire week, but for reasons many and various it just doesn’t seem to be happening. It will soon, I promise. What has been on my mind though is family. When everyone left last weekend, after heaving a sigh of relief that everything [...]
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