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
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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
Life Ever Crafting
WordPress told me the other day that I first started blogging eight years ago. It was – serendipitous, perhaps; well-timed, certainly – that it told me this, because I recently found the notebook in which I made all my early plans for the first incarnation of my blog. And no, I don’t throw away my… Continue reading Life Ever Crafting
Nature Notes: January on the Balcony
We began January with snow, and we’ve ended it with more. I’ve been a bit concerned that the plants might freeze, but they seem to have survived, so far. All the snow is not to say we haven’t had some sunny days too. I’ve even been tempted out for a lunchtime walk around the park… Continue reading Nature Notes: January on the Balcony
Notes From My Office: January 2021
I had thought to be back in the swing of work by this time, even if it was still from home. Full, busy days. Such, though, is not to be at this time, and probably not for several months yet, at least. Alas, alack. So upsetting, that I have half days here, two hours there,… Continue reading Notes From My Office: January 2021
New Year, New Hope
Good morning, 2021! I don’t normally do anything for New Year’s, so the restrictions still in place – and newly reintroduced: we moved to Tier 4 the other day – didn’t really affect my celebrations last night. A cup of tea and Radio 3. But so much for the old. Now to look to the… Continue reading New Year, New Hope
The Vicious Circle of Blogging
Ever since June, when I wrote about how I keep on top of my editorial schedule – the ideas, the drafting, the posting – I haven’t. Oh, I’ve had the schedule down: I’ve known what and when. I just haven’t prepared. Not in the way I aim to be, or in the way I had… Continue reading The Vicious Circle of Blogging
Reading Lists: Curses and Gossip
One of the good things to come out of all the staying at home is that, finally, friends and I have sorted ourselves out with a sort of book-group. I say that, but we have only had one meeting, held via Skype (which I was amazed to discover firstly still existed, and secondly that I… Continue reading Reading Lists: Curses and Gossip
The Crafter’s YouTube Rabbit-Hole
I mentioned the other day that I’ve been down a YouTube Rabbit-Hole. I started using YouTube marginally more frequently when I learnt to crochet, then when I started papercrafting. Especially with crochet, I find it easier to follow instructions when there’s a demonstration, rather than when they’re just written down. Then, a few months back,… Continue reading The Crafter’s YouTube Rabbit-Hole
Notes From My Office: August’s Words
And so the summer ends, with a soggy bank holiday weekend. Schools, in theory, return this week, and Offices might begin to open up again. But nothing’s set in stone. We’re not sure yet when we’ll return to the office, but given it’s a possibility in the near future, I’m beginning to think about what… Continue reading Notes From My Office: August’s Words
