This year's 100 Day Project goes live today and this is the third year I will have participated. My intended goal this year is to record the memories and stories that go alongside my service with the RAF. With simplicity as key, my approach will be to rely on a Project Life-style approach. That way, … Continue reading The 100 Day Project
When it became clear that most of the world would be in some sort of lockdown because of the rampant spread of the Coronavirus, Covid-19, I reached out to friends around the globe and asked them to send me a short piece on what life is like for them right now. Starting off this mini-series … Continue reading Covid-19|Life in Lockdown – Australia
Week 11: There was a lot to record this week, so I went with a double spread. It was the week after my fall. I had a pub lunch with friends and I got my hands on Thomas. Our friend's birthday party became the last hurrah; I made a concertina to hold six more photos. … Continue reading Project Life Revisited | Weeks 11 and 12
Because you knew I would ... Nine days in on the home schooling front. I'd be lying if I told you that all had been well ... but it has gone better then expected. We're not trying to reinvent the educational wheel, we're simply trying to get through the age-appropriate basics ... English, Maths, History, … Continue reading Covid-19 | The Early Days of Home Schooling
There's no way we can say that March was magnificent ... but let's see what the numbers made of it: 7 days of homeschooling. 9 pieces of Happy Mail. 8 scrapbook pages created. 1 fall from grace. 62 walks with Tilly. Thankful for the days earlier in the month when we were able to go … Continue reading Month in Numbers | March 2020
This month has been all about Thomas Cromwell. Hilary Mantel's long-awaited novel, The Mirror and the Light, was released at the beginning of the month, which meant that in order to be up to speed with the story, I re-read Wolf Hall (last read in 2009) and Bring up the Bodies (last read in 2012) … Continue reading For the Love of Books | Currently Reading March 2020
Cup of Jo highlighted Brooklyn's rainbows and we could all do with a few rainbows in our lives right now. Daily walks with Tilly - time to enjoy her attitude to life. Birdsong in West London is now clearly audible thanks to the lack of road traffic, Tube trains and aircraft overhead. Never was memory … Continue reading Four Fun Things
I haven't found my stride with our new normal yet, but I did manage to add two spreads to the upgrade of The Boy Child's album: I'm up to Spring 2010 and the first spread records the time of potty training and the funny thing he said after a toileting mishap. You can see the … Continue reading Scrapbooking in 2020 #5
Some people are stockpiling food; I am stockpiling books. Waiting to be read, once I've got through The Mirror and the Light, are: Grown Ups by Marian Keyes: I heard this being discussed on the Radio 2 Book Club. The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver: this is the latest offering from the … Continue reading For The Love of Books | The To Be Read (TBR) Pile
They tried their best to keep going ... who knows if or when they will be able to reopen ...
