This week, my Oliver would have turned 47. Instead, he will be 38 forever. All day I was holding it in, pushing it down – that wave of relentless emotion that threatened to consume me and explode outwards and then reverse and implode me and the world around me into nothingness. I have done lots […]
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Captain’s Log – Week 7 – Mission Report
May the Fourth be with you! This week began, of course, with Star Wars Day. We celebrated by wearing Star Wars T shirts, having a light sabre fight, watching Star Wars movies… and making Star Wars gingerbread 🙂 Thus far, we have watched Episodes I, II, III, then Solo, followed by Episodes IV, V, VI […]
Captain’s Log – Week 6 – Mission Report
Despite having only made ANZAC Biscuits on Saturday, we started our week baking a cake. Partly because in theory Monday is baking day, but mostly because it was my BFF’s birthday. None of the other photos will cooperate and appear the right way up, so you’ll just have to trust me that Tils was heavily […]
Captain’s Log – Week Five – Mission Report
Week Five… I sat down last Sunday evening to write my week 5 mission report and was beset with tech issues. The combination of my brain melting by 9pm, only getting Tils into bed at 8.30 and then my phone point blank refusing to talk to my computer for the entire hour and a half […]
Finding the Ground
Something wonderful happened this week. I found the ground again. WTF? Well I’ve been in this kind of floaty limbo since the schools closed on the 20th March and I’ve not been feeling entirely myself as a result. My creative flow has been absent. My productivity has been absent. My drive has been absent. The […]
Lest We Forget the ANZACs
We made ANZAC biscuits today and my daughter asked me “what’s ANZAC day?” and I felt ashamed that she did not know. She has spent all of her eight and a half years living in England, and whilst she likes the knowledge that she’s half Australian, it doesn’t mean anything to her yet. One day […]
Captain’s Log – Week Four – Mission Report
Yup, four whole weeks of me and my mini-me at home together, just the two of us – cue Bill Withers, or Will Smith, they’re both good… and we’re both still alive and still friends. Getting back into home school has been a challenge after two and half weeks of “Easter Holidays”, but we got […]
Captain’s Log – Week Three – Mission Report
Coming to you on International Eat Chocolate Until You May Throw Up Day… Happy Easter! I felt like Kylo Ren meeting his grandpa this morning when Tils passed me her half eaten chocolate stormtrooper mask. I cracked the joke then promptly ate a bit of his jaw. Sorry, not sorry! This week has been great. […]