One good thing about this enforced home stay is that even the mending pile, suddenly offers some welcome relief from the monotony of the daily routine. We’re doing ok, we have room to disperse and not be in each other’s pockets unless we want to but even so the ‘openendness’ of the whole affair can …
Book club choice. The Cow Book, by John Connell. Not what I would normally read BUT I am a firm believer that sometimes books choose you and happen to appear at the right time with the right message and this one did exactly that. Of course, before you all get worried, I’m not going to …
Have you seen this letter doing the rounds online? Dearest Rosemary, It was a limpid dreary day, hung as in a basket from a single dull star. I thank you for your letter. Outside, I perceive what may be a collection of fallen leaves tussling against a trash can. It rings like jazz to my …
I can hardly take any credit for these… I simply followed the fail proof, fool proof recipe and voila’. Day 5. It’s Saturday so no school, work and kind of free for all/no need to get dressed king of day, but mother’s guilt is a powerful thing so there I was, baking. I’d like a …
Ok, day 4 of the lockdown. Isolation is weird, especially because I was more isolated before when everybody went to school and the office and I had the house for myself for hours on end during the day. As a matter of fact I crave isolation at the moment! We’re lucky we live in a …
Song by Allen Ginsberg The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. Who can deny? In dreams it touches the body, in thought constructs a miracle, in imagination anguishes till born in human– looks out of the heart burning with purity– for the burden of life is love, but we carry the weight wearily, and so must rest in the arms of …
… and today, after hearing the sad news it could only be this man… the incomparable Kenny Rogers. … and a few more…
I’ve been trying to be really busy trying not to think too much and I got to the point I am actually all caught up with the laundry (and the ironing!)… and don’t think that’s ever happened before so yesterday I was almost bored and felt quite bereft at the sight of silent washing machine. …
200ml single cream 250gr caster sugar zest of one lemon 3 eggs 150gr plain flour 1 teaspoon of baking powder Recipe from the lovely Constanca Cabral. It’s super easy to make and really delicious. I know I’m not the only one that has taken up baking… it fills the time right? it keeps the mind …
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