Although many flat-dwellers are not blessed with lovely views from their windows, My Midnight Man and I are blessed with having a balcony and a lounge window that provides us with a view to a large park. If you’ve been reading my blogs for a while, you will know this. However, I wish I …
What do you get when you mix a bit of laziness, a bit of pre-occupation, a bit of busyness, a bit of fatigue and days that follow each other too quickly? It’s more like what one doesn’t get—a blog posting! But with the kind and strong encouragement, mixed with some very gentle chastisement, from …
The repeated pattern of the weather over our summer months has been: sun and a bit of warmth for two, maybe three days; heavily overcast, cool, grey days that hold in the sound of aircraft engines; two or three days of rain, some gentle showers, some heavy down pours, accompanied by thunder and lightening. …
It’s time to get back to the book project I was so excited about in February. I’d purchased a workbook entitled “Book In A Month—the fool-proof system for writing a novel in 30 days.” It’s written by Victoria Lynn Schmidt, Ph.D. So I sat myself down and organized according to the schedule in the …
Longer, warmer days Bright, warm, first caressing, then burning—we are blessed with Spring-time sun. It’s been with us now the last week, along with burgeoning leaves, exploding blossoms, greening grass, and flowering bushes. We are now seeing folk attired in sleeveless shirts, shorts, and sandaled feet. The temperatures have been around …
I love libraries. I have since I was a teen-ager. One of my dreams is to find a book I’ve written on a library bookshelf. The last few weeks I’ve been borrowing books that have to do with sewing. I’m learning all kinds of little things. For example, I should always change the needle …
This time of year, everything changes quickly. The view from my studio window reveals how quickly those changes take place. Here is the view of the tree right outside. I thought I’d share the view with you.
The hallway carpet is thread-bare in places, and is also black. As such, it could stand to be vacuumed daily—thought it isn’t. This morning My Midnight Man dragged the Dyson Vacuum from the hall cupboard. Whilst I’m eating a bowl of cornflakes, Midnight Man energetically sets the machine in motion. After a couple of …
With My Midnight Man’s progeny living in their own abodes, I had this naive and silly idea that the days of needing to go to the A&E (English for Accident and Emergency—the American counterpart is the ER) had ended. Not so. I begin the tale a few weeks back, when my ears were …
The first chapter of Genesis, the first verse reads: “In the beginning God (prepared, formed, fashioned and) created the heavens and earth.” There is a progression of the world’s creation which leads to mankind. “God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] makes mankind in our image, after Our likeness…” (Amplified Bible) …