Year: 2019

  • A Sentence (Or Two) A Day: December 2019.

    A Sentence (Or Two) A Day: December 2019.

    December, the most magical month of the year.  It was also an incredibly busy one for me.  I was equal parts happy and reflective, equal parts stressed and chilled (ok perhaps more of the former than the latter).  Through it all, though, I was just grateful for it all.  The commitments, the juggling, the family…

  • #Bestof2019

    #Bestof2019

    We’re on the cusp of a new decade. I’m also on the cusp of a glorious two days off in the middle of the week, in summer to see in the new year and decade. It is, therefore, not a time for a deep post about the year just gone. Instead, may I present my…

  • It’s the Weekend After Christmas.

    It’s the Weekend After Christmas.

    The tree is packed away, my main source of vitamins for the last weeks has been cherries and we’ve hit that lull between Christmas and the New Year. My heart is saying Happy Festivus Inbetweenus but my mind and body are stuck in the world of work. It’s not all drudgery and sleep deprivation. Opportunities…

  • That Christmas Feeling.

    That Christmas Feeling.

    That Christmas feeling has crept up on me in the most unexpected ways and in the most unlikely moments.  Long-time readers of the blog will know that Christmas is my holiday.  I embrace the kitsch and the kitchen with passion each year.  I love the gifting and I love the ‘homely’ angle when it comes…

  • Lovin’ Life 19/12/2019: The View From the Top.

    Lovin’ Life 19/12/2019:  The View From the Top.

    This week I’m loving the light and the view from the top floor of the car park at work…. it’s so calm and peaceful up here it makes the world at ground level look similarly so that the sky was looking so clear today I managed to get this coveted shaded space that’s a little…

  • Pre-Christmas Procrastination.

    Pre-Christmas Procrastination.

     It’s definitely the silly season. I understand completely about the doughnuts, fellow Saturday morning just before Christmas shopper.  Only I wouldn’t have left as many doughnuts behind… There’s so much to be done both at work and in the Christmas lunch prep stakes at this stage of December but sometimes you just have to listen…

  • Life This Week 16/12/2019: Share Your Snaps.

    Life This Week 16/12/2019: Share Your Snaps.

    The Christmas break is so, so close I can taste it.  Things are starting to wind down, my mind is finally turning to what I’ll be doing for Christmas lunch and the following photos will probably be the last non-holiday photos I’ll be taking for a bit. I am.  Hard.  I found this abandoned highchair…

  • Lovin’ Life 12/12/2019: Five Things.

    Lovin’ Life 12/12/2019: Five Things.

    Things I’ve loved about the last week: Finding my favourite Danish Butter Cookie tins back on the shelves at Woolies, albeit only for days before they sold out again. Kicking back with a coffee on a Saturday morning as the sounds of the tantrums of other people’s toddlers gently jostled the airwaves around me.  I…

  • Cognitive Chips. A Weekend Before Christmas.

    Cognitive Chips.  A Weekend Before Christmas.

    It all started when I proudly posted this photo of this meal (the Damn Delicious Taco Bowl recipe, FYI) Instagram. The joys of iPhone predictive text.  Do you know what came out instead of corn chips (I was being smug about not adding them to my taco bowl)?  Cognitive chips. Cognitive chips.  They need to…

  • Life This Week 9/12/2019: Taking Stock.

    Life This Week 9/12/2019: Taking Stock.

    It’s the second week of December, Christmas is a fortnight away.  I sound very battle weary in this week’s ‘Taking Stock’ because of both these facts.  It’s been a very therapeutic post to write though and I feel the better for completing that last prompt. Making: space in my wardrobe for all the new dresses…