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Happy Birthday, Briddi! -
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You know when is a really bad time to move a 50 litre bag of wet compost? When you've just washed your hands and put a ton of handcream on ( Read more... ) -
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Kids are off to the cinema and I'm having a quiet afternoon in. Nice ( Read more... ) -
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Ow, ow, ow, my back is still not up to driving. Just went to the Weserpark to buy a birthday present for my mum (84 tomorrow), and those five miles were not a comfortable ride. And then, to round it off, on the way back I missed our motorway exit. Because I was thinking about Turkish vocab ( Read more... ) -
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Emily just made my day. She told us about a mathematical game of tag they played in school. Everyone except for the tagger got a number and the teacher drew smaller numbers from a bag. If your number was divisible by that one, the tagger got to chase you. Em drew hers (73) and immediately said 'mine is prime'. The teacher said, 'do you want to draw ( Read more... ) -
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Just filled in my organ donor card to keep in my wallet. Felt a tiny bit weird, but now I'm quite pleased with myself. -
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Been more adventurous with my Easter baking this year. I'd wanted to make hot cross buns, which I love, but I'd seen this donut recipe in the Guardian that had really tickled my fancy. I started the dough off the day before yesterday, then put it in the fridge overnight and finally fried them yesterday evening. Out of this world. They weren't meant ( Read more... ) -
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Yesterday afternoon, Emily was bored and made some jelly/jello/Wackelpudding. Cherry and woodruff flavour. For some reason or other, she and Nathan decided to ladle it into my silicone muffin molds. Possibly because they wanted to turn the jellies out ( Read more... ) -
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One of the worst things about regularly being ill for two, three or even four weeks at a time is getting restarted with my daily life. There's always stuff to do piled up, no matter how much Adam and the kids take over the daily running of the household, and it can feel a bit overwhelming ( Read more... )