A green family who likes foraging, hiking and history (My Moon-Shot)
Thursday 30 January 2020
Joined up writing
Thursday 23 January 2020
A very inconvenient piggy-bank
Thursday 16 January 2020
Gnomes threatened by high winds
It is over a little thing. To be precise, two little things.
We’ve been in our current post-kids home for four years now. The garden has matured nicely.
Wednesday 8 January 2020
Saved by the School Bell
Two years ago, Christmas finished and both Perran and Carenza were living with us.
One year ago, Pascoe was home. “We could have an adventure, Mum,” he said, and we did – a short trip to meltingly beautiful Lisbon.
This year, however, after what was for me an unsatisfactory Christmas (flu) all the children left to go back to their own flats and working lives. Nigel returned to work too.
Still feeling rather sorry for myself, I found myself with several days before teaching started and a to-do list which, though long, contained no task that I found in any way tempting.
Instead I sat around wondering what my whole life had been about, whether the good times were all over. Whether all that was left was decline and inevitable decay.
Luckily, work started again this week.
I now know what life is about – it is about printing out registers, marking stray exercise books, making sure the info on my PowerPoints is correct and that everything is uploaded to my USB stick.
I feel much more myself again.
So that’s alright then.