Sometimes, I build up a backlog of Archers Omnibuses (Omnibii?), and then I settle into my office (in its guise as my craft room) and spend an afternoon catching up while I craft. It’s easier, I find, than remembering to retune the radio from 3 to 4 every evening at 7pm (or tuning in on… Continue reading Notes From My Office: April 2021
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Places and other observations.
On Writer’s Block and Inspiration
For the first time since I restarted my blogging in Summer 2019, with all my Good Intentions for planning posts well in advance, I failed for today. Naturally, therefore, I shall take my inspiration from this, and write on Writer’s Block, that common or garden excuse for not writing. I use a bullet journal, of… Continue reading On Writer’s Block and Inspiration
Life in Lockdown: Relaxing Restrictions
Life is beginning to open up again. From today, non-essential shops and leisure activities can reopen. Hair dressers and zoos, pubs and clothes shops. The weather, too, after last week’s arctic blast, might start to cheer up again. There’s talk of the Return to the Office. It might even happen this time, since the Roadmap… Continue reading Life in Lockdown: Relaxing Restrictions
Notes From My Office: March 2021
Ah, the beginning of British Summer Time. Clocks went forward yesterday, though it doesn’t feel very summery yet. Still blowing a gale. Photo by Thirdman on Pexels.com It doesn’t feel like we’ve got through nearly three months of 2021. To be fair, though, since the beginning of the first lockdown this time last year, time… Continue reading Notes From My Office: March 2021
The Joys of Spring
This last weekend just gone was the Spring Equinox, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. Next weekend, the clocks go back and British Summer Time begins. I like this time of year. It’s a time of hope and optimism. A time of sunshine and new buds on the trees. A time when I… Continue reading The Joys of Spring
Life in Hibernation: The End of Winter
I’ve enjoyed my winter in hibernation, not being able to see family and friends excepted. I’ve enjoyed not having to force myself awake while it’s still dark outside in order to go to work, and then coming home again in the dark. Less tiring and depressing. There are a few months yet of working from… Continue reading Life in Hibernation: The End of Winter
Creative Inspiration: How to Find It
There’s an Ancient Greek sentiment, from various of the Ancient Greek writers, along the lines of “The Gods help those who help themselves”. I imagine Inspiration and the Muses work in the same way. Don’t sit around waiting for the Muses to show up, or to be struck by a blinding flash of inspiration. Work… Continue reading Creative Inspiration: How to Find It
Notes From My Office: February 2021
It seems a bit odd to think that I’m only a couple of weeks short of spending a full year working from home. I’ve read lots about how people have been reprioritising their lives over the last year, since the first lockdown gave them room to breathe and think. Finding some way to rebalance a… Continue reading Notes From My Office: February 2021
Life in Hibernation: Love and Pancakes
I thought of writing about Valentine’s today, but being the unsentimental variety of person (as is M, fortunately), I’ve never been much taken with it. I prefer the random bars of chocolate he comes home with to a box of truffles bought because the Retail Gods demand it. I did make a card, about a… Continue reading Life in Hibernation: Love and Pancakes
Organising the Crafting Supplies
Crafting, of any variety, makes for a good hobby or three. It’s very easy, once you start one sort of craft, to be sucked into another. And then another, and another. There’s another hobby that goes along with all the crafting, though, that often gets forgotten or overlooked. It’s the collecting of crafting supplies and… Continue reading Organising the Crafting Supplies
