Yesterday I saw the first glimpse of green grass in over a week and went to bed giddy with excitement at the prospect of leaving the house for the first time since the New Year. DH burst my bubble at 4am when he announced that it was snowing again, so this morning I once more found myself facing a day indoors. I stood in the Wet Room (the lean-to we have at the back of the house that the Estate Agents laughingly referred to as a Garden Room) and … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2010
The Good Wife Guide #1
Picture creditThe last time I wrote about a Wife-guide, I got into the kind of trouble you never expect, but that has the potential to divide a family until the end of time. In making a point, I didn't choose my words carefully enough and almost had to stop blogging altogether. So I have been reticent about this post.DH bought me this book for Christmas. Not, I hasten to add, as an insult or a pointer, but more because he thought it would be good … [Read more...]
Sweet spiced cookies on a snowy day.
When the snow is falling, I end up raiding the kitchen to find things to do with the Pocket Dictator. She loves being in her FunPod and helping me whilst I cook, so a lump of leftover pastry was the perfect thing to focus our attention on. In actual fact it was pastry that I used to make mince pies at Christmas, the leftovers of which I had just used to make a Mincemeat tart, so I've been feeling quite DG about the fact that I made something so … [Read more...]
A 2009 retrospective
You get to Christmas and when people have stopped talking about presents and shopping and asking "are you ready?" they ask the classic rhetorical question: where did this year go? I wondered the same thing at 4am when I was lying awake being kicked by the Jumping Bean. I didn't really get into blogging until late in the year, so figured I'd share 2009 with you:JanuaryThe last blog. Barack takes office and I go back to work, leaving the Pocket … [Read more...]
