We have reached that part of the year when days are at their longest. When the sun shines (though hopefully not as excessively as last week), and there is hope and optimism in the air. A lifting of the spirits caused by all the light and warmth, by the birdsongs and colours from the flowers.… Continue reading The Midsummer Crisis
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Notes From My Office: June 2022
I have hopes for June. Partly, perhaps, because the sun is more consistently shining, and that always lends an air of hope and optimism. But also because, finally, after about six months, the daily overtime is over, and I can begin to use my accumulated toil, and the holidays I haven’t touched since Christmas, to… Continue reading Notes From My Office: June 2022
Notes From My Office: May 2022
Another month down, and one in which my crafting took a back seat. I suspect that may continue to be the case in May, although I have a new toy arriving soon which may prevent that. Having struggled for so long to get along with my Gemini, and because I don’t often need an A4… Continue reading Notes From My Office: May 2022
Notes From My Office: April 2022
The clocks have gone forward, the sun is beginning to shine (last week’s flurry of snow an aberration), and the optimism of summer is making itself known. Soon, I hope, the daily overtime for the day-job will come to an end (it started before Christmas), and then perhaps I will have the energy to craft… Continue reading Notes From My Office: April 2022
Notes From My Office: March 2022
Today is Shrove Tuesday. Otherwise known, in Britain, as Pancake Day, and in other countries or languages as some variation on Fat Tuesday. The day on which the eggs, milk and butter – all the rich foods – are used up before their banishment for the duration of Lent. Hence the pancakes in Britain. Traditionally,… Continue reading Notes From My Office: March 2022
Putting the Pieces Together
The trouble with some plans is that they aren’t individual, or a plan in isolation. They don’t just happen: there are several steps, or several strands, which have to happen. Big-picture, long-term plans. The sorts of plans which take time and patience, and careful chipping away. For the more impatient of us, these sorts of… Continue reading Putting the Pieces Together
Notes From My Office: February 2022
There’ve been some changes around here since last summer. You might have noticed. I took longer to get back to writing and crafting regularly since taking August off than I intended. Partly this was due to a restless sort of feeling about the whole thing, and what I wanted from it and where it was… Continue reading Notes From My Office: February 2022
If In Doubt – Organise!
It is, perhaps, a little early for a Spring Clean in my craft room, but it is definitely time for a good reorganisation. Mostly because my desk is currently covered in magazines, stamp sets and crafty gifts which haven’t found a home yet. And various non-crafty things which also need a home, and my desk… Continue reading If In Doubt – Organise!
The Start of 2022
Year Two of the Great Plague of Covid is now behind us. The Great Plague, of course, is still with us. Not that it affected either Christmas or New Year plans for me, other than to use a walk-in centre to get my booster jab and having to deal with a headache side-effect for a… Continue reading The Start of 2022
Notes From My Office: November 2021
This last month has had a lot of time thinking about and planning for Christmas. Here, with the updated Advent calendar and considering back-up plans in case of sudden restrictions (especially now with the Omicron variant), and in the Office with Christmas lunches and all the other festivities of the season. In some ways, I’m… Continue reading Notes From My Office: November 2021
Life Ever Crafting 