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Jul 19, 2024: Actually doing the thing is very helpful. No surprises there. Lots of excuses found though 😅
Jul 16, 2024: Milk eggs sleep alone time 🥛🍳😴🧑🏽🌾
Jul 13, 2024: Collage + gouache combo on the left. Gouache + acrylic on right. I love how the nasturtiums turned out. The poppy only meh. The lily mildy delightful.
Jul 10, 2024: I sometimes wish I could write more about what I draw. But I draw so I don’t have to do words. And so it is 😅
Jul 9, 2024: Alison was so excited to show me a rose bush budding in the middle of winter. I’m pretty sure this is a dream mostly because I can’t find evidence of …
Jul 9, 2024: Collage! Real life one! I enjoyed making this. In the process I even answered questions I didn’t know I had. Also this is not a precious sketchbook …
Jul 8, 2024: No frills, just the disarmingly vigorous beauty of the ordinary. — Christian Ouwens describing Klaas Gubbels’ studio.
Jul 7, 2024: An impasse and I'm okay with it! Re the social media exodus (that I may or may not be imagining!) – I’m curious: what are people doing with their content from their now …
Jul 7, 2024: Dear husband. Please. (A digital collage via Procreate)
Jul 7, 2024: Spontaneous video call with my childhood friends for a baby shower. It was so so so cup-filling. I’ve missed them both so much and I’m so grateful T …
Jun 28, 2024: Exam deadline tomorrow. Naturally I’m on eBay looking at terrarium plants and chrysanthemums and considering bidding for a sweet jumper not available …
Jun 22, 2024: Type. Delete. Type. Delete…….. I am this. No, no, no. No I am not that. But maybe I should? Arg. (Squishes face with palms.) If …
Jun 21, 2024: Clean as you go, please! Digital sketchbook via Procreate.
Jun 12, 2024: Finished study of a bearded iris from this afternoon’s session (’painting’ via Procreate). The ruffles were a fun challenge to nut out - I could have …
Jun 4, 2024: There are moments when raising young children when I really, really want to tell them, “whatever you do, don’t ever have kids." But …
May 31, 2024: I’m going to attempt the Pressed Flowers hat by Amy Christoffers. Fingers crossed youtube can save my ambitious arse 🧶
May 31, 2024: FINALLY Finished reading: Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson 📚 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I’ve been on off reading this book and never got past …
May 30, 2024: A spell of sickness that started with me. Kids home for close to a week now. Even M is napping! He never does this. Must be really bad. I’m sort …
May 27, 2024: Doodles via Procreate. Left is an imagined garden pest. Right is kalanchoe and (dead?) portulaca in a terracotta pot.
May 27, 2024: A tangent!
May 27, 2024: Oh no. It’s the dreaded mid-knit regret. This is the second attempt with this yarn combination — a really soft worsted wool and a strand of mohair. …
May 22, 2024: How do psychologists navigate the world? Genuinely curious! Are they constantly seeing attachment types at play? People pleasing? Narcissistic …
May 21, 2024: Not instant noodles 🐸 🧶
May 21, 2024: All these knitting patterns with mohair are making my head hurt and my bank account non-responsive 🧶
May 20, 2024: Now and again there are glimpses of a less fragmented home life. At the moment, still a rarity. A6.4, T3.7.
May 20, 2024: Currently reading: Monk’s Hood by Ellis Peters 📚
May 20, 2024: Finished reading: One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters 📚 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
May 13, 2024: Long overdue catch up with Bea today. Ours is one of those friendships that doesn’t need too much but keeps on giving 💖
May 11, 2024: Joy-spotting 💖
May 10, 2024: Finished reading: What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo 📚 4/5 ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹 Finished book via audio — it’s the better way to appreciate this memoir. …
May 5, 2024: Back in the Ravelry rabbit hole and some of the patterns I would love to knit are so out of reach right now (skill wise)!
May 5, 2024: Finished reading: A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters 📚 4.5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🦴 Very enjoyable read. The writing style is not the easiest to digest (esp …
May 4, 2024: A meadow underwater. How absolutely stunning. So glad I looked.
May 2, 2024: Finished reading: A Date with Death by P.F. Ford 📚 2.5/5 ⭐️⭐️🌗 Prequel to the West Wales series that focuses on Southall. Which means no Norm. Which …
May 2, 2024: I really didn’t need another dozen tulips to plant… and yet here I am.
Apr 29, 2024: Substack has been relocated to The Graveyard of Deleted Apps.
Apr 28, 2024: Currently reading: A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters 📚 I must admit I’m only reading this because of my recent rose bush acquisition (a …
Apr 28, 2024: Finished reading: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I’ve heard so much about this book and expected too much. Still a great …
Apr 28, 2024: Finished reading: A BODY ON THE BEACH a Gripping Welsh Crime Mystery Full of Twists by P F Ford 📚 4.5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌗 For the genre (cosy mystery!), it’s …
Apr 26, 2024: Finished reading: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt 📚 3/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Found the book repetitive and thought the focus on safety-ism valid but also …
Apr 25, 2024: First bunch of chrysanthemums I’ve ever picked. Pictured here are Champagne and Baltica Salmon.
Apr 25, 2024: Approaching mid-century and still feel the sting of messages unacknowledged. Ahh to be human!
Apr 21, 2024: I almost bought a Light Phone / Punkt / some dumb phone today but thought I’d try a minimum spend approach first 🤷🏽♀️ Deleted a bunch of apps …
Apr 16, 2024: A new dinosaur: Philoseraptor – courtesy of A.
Apr 16, 2024: Noticing the tension between wanting something pretty vs just going for it, mess and all.
Apr 11, 2024: Dahlia cv Belle with her two toned petals. I was so happy to come home to her in bloom. Days are getting shorter. The garden looks tired. Still! It’s …
Sep 11, 2023: One more week and Term 3 will be over. Then it will be one more term, and prep will be done and dusted for my eldest. Where did the year go? Sheesh!
Sep 7, 2023: Big day today. Finished with therapy. (for now? forever?) Towards the end she said: You are a remarkable human being. A few tears shed. Hard to …
Sep 3, 2023: It’s been a season of organising my digital library. So far I have liberated 🥳 and organised my ebooks and audiobooks. Massive relief! 🤓 Now to tackle …
Sep 3, 2023: Hope can be sneaky Last time I had a major nervous breakdown, I planted a mass of dahlias in the garden for the first time in my life. All my angst and pent up energy …