This is the zero bad news, not one single upsetting or sad thing edition that we all need. I am feeling chipper and light today after a lovely, rainy early morning walk, so let’s focus on chipper and light things?…
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What a difference a couple of months makes. Last time I wrote a Taking Stock post I had no clue of the global upheaval that lay ahead. I am grateful that I have been well throughout this pandemic and…
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Feeling A Bit Sh*t? The ‘Open Up Keep Trying’ Edition
Look, it’s been a while since I’ve done Feeling A Bit Sh*t, partly because things have been sh*t for so many people and it’s not something to be made light of. And partly because I have been distracted. But…
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Don’t & Delight: Yeast Privilege and Slow Cookers
Welcome to today’s episode of Don’t & Delight! I hope you are managing okay during these strange days. Don’t – Take Your Yeast Privilege For Granted I love baking. I always have. The older I get, the more skills…
Here’s a little thing I’ve been writing. It’s called Don’t and Delight. One cautionary tale and one cheery one, rolled up into one post … Let’s do this! Let’s start with the ‘worst’ first and end on a high…
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April already?! Something Good For The Weekend
I’m sorry I have been a bit quiet this week. I have been battling with all the sorts of things that many others have been tackling, but I’m coming up for air because you guys are my second favourite…
Hello! I did not check in yesterday because I had to finish off my work for uni. But I am here today with something less long-winded than last week’s posts … and also something more chatty. So let’s do…
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Let’s Play Something Good For The Weekend! It’s Time For Episode Nine
Hello, hello, hi! Firstly thank you to everyone who has helped me over the last few days in all sorts of ways. I so appreciate this and it’s honestly made a huge difference and I am keeping a list…
Hello! This afternoon I though I’d share a dinner recipe which takes a bunch of simple ingredients and transforms them into something nourishing. This is my favourite soup at the moment. It’s hearty but simple with the potatoes and…
Guess what? I lost my job of 3.5 years yesterday. Pretty crap. I loved my job and I love my ex-co-workers. I worked so so so hard, so I am pretty sad about this turn of events. Times like…
A crafty crew are joining me in making an Easy Peasy Blanket at the moment, as a sort of salve to these stressful days. Basically this blanket is a bunch of very large granny squares in just three colours…
Hello! I know there are lots of concerns and pressures on people at the moment. The list is longer than my arm. And leg. And other leg. And other arm. I care about all those things and they are…
Hello peaches. Clearly we are living in unprecedented times, times when we all need to come together and share our swirling thoughts … because knowing you are not the only one feeling this way is a real salve. I…
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Something Good for the Weekend: Episode Eight
It’s that time of the week/fortnight/month … Yup. It’s time for some good things! Let’s get amongst them, my friends. Something GOOD For the Weekend Something GOOD to do Go and look at Kim Baise’s amazing Instagram account. You…
I’m a sucker for a list, as you may well know if you are a regular reader here. Today’s list is one is from a new-to-me blog — My Quiet Life in Suffolk — and I found that blog via my friend Rhonda’s…
Let me start with a little bit of backstory. You may or may not know that I am a high school drop-out. Despite being a good student, various circumstances and sensitivities conspired to have me keen to get the…
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Episode Seven: Something Good for the Weekend
Do you ever have those weeks when each day brings more fatigue no matter what you do? This week has been like that for me. I think it’s just the heat and humidity and having trouble sleeping – due…
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Episode Six: Something Good for the Weekend
Hooray! It’s the weekend! For me, this means doing some work-y things and some studying things. But I am totally happy about all that. I’m also going to do some cooking and some sewing and some library-ing and reading…
My littlest child turned 20 this week. I know, I know. 20 is not little, no matter how rose coloured your glasses may be. 20 bumps that word teenage, the one you have been bandying about and applying to…
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Episode Five: Something good for the weekend
This morning I got up super early and went to the market. So early in fact that the aisles were still full of empty fruit boxes and runaway grapes and squished apricots. No matter because I’m amazingly nimble with…
It’s time to talk about things to do on the weekend! Because the weekend is now! So let’s do that … Something GOOD For the Weekend Something GOOD to do Go to a second-hand book shop or op shop…
I just watered my plants and do you know what I thought? I thought “go and write a blog post you lazy sod”. So here I am with a November-style edition of my favourite join-the-dots update … Taking Stock!…
It’s such a rainy day here. After two or three very hot days in a row the cool change came through and it has been bucketing down since the exact moment I pulled my car onto the freeway on…
There has been so much going on in my world that I have been too tired to pop in here, but it’s a very quiet and rainy Saturday morning … and that’s one of the best time to write…
For me, noticing the good things – however tiny – has been a sort of hook into the world when I had been feeling like I was drifting. Believe it or not, the very good Bahn Mi shop or…
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Feeling A Bit Sht? Here are some non-sht things that might prove bolstering
Feeling a bit shit? Well maybe some of these things will make you feel a wee bit less so? I honestly hope so. 1/ The pink robin lives in the south-east of Australia (i.e. where I live!) and I have…
