Clock fiddling

As usual the first week after Daylight Savings begins has left me (and others apparently) feeling a bit tired....sort of jetlagged in fact. It takes me a few days to get used to the new rhythm. I happened upon a forum today where some outraged people were complaining about it. They said it wasn't 'saving' anything it was just 'clock fiddling'. That amused me. What amused me further was the letter to the editor that supposedly appeared in the print version of the Border Mail 'Points of View' section.

Warning, this may be a hoax I can find lots of references to it but none from the source. Of course that doesn't make it any less enjoyable for me.

A meme of sorts

It's a public holiday here so busy doing some more of the jobs mentioned yesterday. So, a meme ....from Blackbird.

Outside my window my neighbour is fixing his fence....in a gale.

Daily rhythm: Up, coffee, cuddling children while we have morning drinks, then whatever the day brings.

I am thankful for too many things to list.

In the kitchen there is a 'to do' list...with quite a few things crossed off! But some still to do.

Breakfast - Toast with marmalade.

Lunch - Soup - homemade vegetable broth.

Supper - Ummm, haven't decided yet - it's only midday after all.

I am wearing - Functional work clothes (remember that 'to do' list? Not all done yet).

I am feeling positive and content today.

Bringing beauty to my home by making things...sewing various soft furnishings. I'm enjoying that.

I am reading Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel....God it's long. Good. But long.

I am hoping that the rest of the year is better than it has been up until now (have to say, haven't had a fantastic 2008).

Making plans for the future - 2009 in particular. Good plans.

Puttering

Daylight Savings started today. Don't have much to say about that really except I'm all confused and out of sync - but that will pass. Tonight will be a battle to get the girls to go to bed in broad daylight. Happens every year.

We've all been busy doing lots of little jobs around the place, some of those things on the 'list of things to do' that wait patiently (for weeks, sometimes months) to be done. There is rarely time to spend just getting on with them, however, this weekend it's all go at our place.

I even got this out...

No Haute Couture or anything, just some simple 'soft furnishing' type jobs. No complications, plenty of straight lines.

With all this cooking and sewing I'm quite the Domestic Goddess these days.

Today...

..nothing interesting ('is there ever?' I hear you ask). Only cleaning, tidying, organising and sorting. I love organising and sorting and today it was my office that got the special treatment. Not finished yet, but it feels different, and better, already.

I also did some cooking, which, you may recall, I don't enjoy doing at all (don't follow that second link Dave, it's the needle-in-eyes post that upset your sore point).

Tom is now mowing the lawns and trying to finish before nightfall so he can call it done and not have to get the mower out again tomorrow.

The girls put on a combination puppet show/play for us this afternoon, about 15 minutes in they admitted they hadn't planned the story, it was all ad lib and they had no idea where the plot was going. After some gentle encouragement to keep going but for the love of God not too long (I didn't really say that - not to their faces anyway) there was another 15 minutes of aimlessness and it all ended happily ever after. Thank goodness.

Now we're going to settle in for evening, watch something entertaining (I hope) and eat that soup I made. Assuming it's edible. There's no guarantee and seeing as I burnt the first batch it's touch and go really.

Well that didn't last long

After yesterdays blue skies and bees, today we have grey skies and cold.

See....

Compare it to yesterday....HUGE difference!

It's also raining.............on my weeds.

So indoor activities are the order of the day. The girls got busy making 'stained glass windows'.

A fish....

a flower....

and a dragon......

I have to say the dragon is freaking me out a bit, looks like it just emerged from the very bowels of hell. I'm not telling the girls that though, don't want to cramp their creative style.

Now we have to think of something else to do because the natives are getting restless and Aislin just blew a raspberry at Hannah then cried when Hannah said she was disgusting. We might have to pop out and buy wine first, because I feel certain Mummy's going to need her little helper tonight.

Blue skies and bees

It's a beautiful day, perfect temperature, perfect blue sky and the buzz of bees.

Here's the sky....

Here's a bee...

There are actually hundreds of bees on that shrub but you're just going to have to take my word for it because I couldn't get them all to stay still long enough for a photo. They were quite unco-operative, dashing - in a rather wobbly way - from flower to flower, buzzing their heads off.

Drunk on pollen I suspect.

On my desk

As it is school holidays I am not at my desk, but on the table we have......

Cluedo....

.....Junior Scrabble....

..and Snakes and Ladders...

Most enjoyable.