Yes I love my creature comforts and I love my technology but I also love escaping back to a life that is pretty basic. For the last 10 years now, at Easter, we have left the city and headed for...
We all have shelves.We all have shelves full of stuff, books, toys, clothes, foodstuffs,photos, mementos of wonderful holidays as well as empty plastic boxes, old papers we might need some day and st...
I have been collecting wool locks from different breeds of sheep for the past couple of years. I was never quite sure what to do with them, but knew they were too nice to card into a batt, to b...
What a fun 3 hours! I have just returned home (in an horrendous snowstorm!) from a morning felting with 18 second graders(8 years old). They were so good and had real fun especially with the soapy wa...
Ticking along through a grey winter which finally has cheered up with the arrival of snow and colder temperatures.I have been back in the workshop and finally getting round to completing a few projec...
Well almost - 16 Aliens, 48 pincushions, 22 Tonttu hats and 53 Alien postcards amongst other things have all gone to new homes! One very happy felter here! Just a couple of orders to complete and the...
4 years for the little man and 10 months for me - after diagnosis day that is. How are we doing? Well as I said to the doctor today, we are just getting on with life. The kids rushing out the door at...
and ice cream!Pig cake!Its my birthday and I will have ice cream!Guess the carbs in that ice cream - we almost got it right!My little man turned 8 a couple of weeks ago - still my baby!! 2 hours old!
So I havent been totally idle these last few weeks, some experimenting, some playing and some money spinners!Totally!Im glad nobody asks what I did at work today!Practising their ho ho hos!Your door ...
October next week! 3 months to Christmas! Its all going too fast! So much to do , so much to tell! Felting will finally get a look in soon - I have been busy in my chaos of a workshop and just ...
On a good day he could run the course in about 15 minutes I reckoned, say 20 minutes.The minutes ticked past 20, no sign.25 minutes went by, OK maybe he got a bit lost or was a bit tired.30 minutes h...
Caught a big fish!! Fed the duck family.... chatted to the train driver..... took the steam drain to Mallaig, passing over a familiar bridge...... went skimming stones in the old slate quarry at Ball...
Why I love this time of year in the Finnish forestsFree food - chanterelles and boletus - Yum!Why I hate this time of year in the Finnish forestsThe dreaded Elk fly - Think spiders with wings.....
Caught some fish......Experimented with cornflour, inspired by Mythbusters!(Complete with serious summer haircut!!)Planned a morning swim in the lake......Stayed on a ship hotel.......Found a great u...
Take one small boy on school holiday. Add one week of sports activity in 25-30 degrees C heat. Attach one insulin pump in groovy sports pouch to hot sweaty body of above small boy. Allow to run aroun...
Dont look at the screen of an insulin pump with 3D cinema glasses on unless you want a heart attack in the cinema...... Quick edit - it shows a horrible black screen with multi coloured splodges on i...
Writing does not come easily to me. I only ever managed to scrape a couple of pages of a small exercise book at school for that create a story homework. Even in my job as a Physiotherapist I didnt h...
A blip on the X ray.For most people, probably nothing.For me could be something - not something that needs an urgent check but something that needs an eye on it. Could be nothing though.Otherwise slo...
Why did I spend most of last night chasing a low blood sugar, enhanced by a beeping pump and CGM?Why did I spend the night before last beating down a high blood sugar that would not go away?Just beca...
Time to get back to normal - Before my surgery I did the night blood sugar tests. We dont check every night routinely. We have a policy/ criteria for night time checks as discussed with our doctor. Y...
I have found the cure for Bingo wings - 3 weeks hopping around on crutches and no more flabby arms!!They are great for gently poking the kids out of their TV coma!No matter how carefully you park the...
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