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The divine novelty of the first warm days of the year. It is hard to fathom at this point in the season that I will take these days for granted as the occasional warm day turns into a series. Today is my first barefoot day. As soon as it is warm enough I gleefully shed…
This morning as I was walking in the drizzle, pretending it wasn’t as cold as it was, I watched as a pair of geese landed. I know I have watched geese land on water, which is a beautiful thing to observe, but I am not sure I have witnessed or maybe paid attention them landing…
Spring seems to be arriving slowly. Now that the snow and ice have mostly melted from my yard it is not looking so lovely. I have a small patch of snowdrops peeking and some other spikes of green pushing through the still mostly frozen ground. These little glimmers of fresh green are overwhelmed by the…
I know there are more important things to get your knickers in a knot about (pun intended), but it is this wee niggling thing for me. I ventured into the lingerie department the other day. There were countless bras all displayed in their boxes and on their hangers, in their various shades of neutral and…
Sunshine. Willing the sunshine warmth to sink into my bones and banish the deep winter chill. Sunshine. Bright. Creeping through the skin of my eyelids, making my closed-eyed world orange, red, white. Breeze, lifting my hair, movement. Soundscape. Bird song: chickadee, woodpecker, cardinal, sparrow, red-winged blackbird, crow. Well, maybe not song from the crow. The…
I get ads in my email. I know there is probably a way to not receive them, but in the short term it is easier/faster to delete them. Not being much of a shopper I really don’t care about what the ads are trying to sell me. I can very easily ignore ‘50% off…
Shortly after we were married I introduced my husband to The Contract. The introduction was something like this… Him – “You’re not being very nice” Me – “I don’t have to be nice. It’s not in the contract.” Him – “What contract?” Me – “The contract you agreed to when you married me.” Him –…
I love food. Food is a fabulous thing. I spend much of most days making food for my family, and whomever passes through my kitchen when I am creating. It is a good thing I like cooking and baking because there are hours put into making it but it is devoured in no time at…
There is a legend in my family that my eldest sister’s first word was ‘shit’, and she chose to demonstrate her new ability in the middle of a fund raising tea by saying it multiple times, while beating on a small toy in the middle of a circle of properly dressed church ladies perched on…