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Cocooning

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

I read an article yesterday about cocooning, the unexplicable urge to stay home by the fire, bake, read ….and I’m sure it would have said ‘knit socks’ if the writer had been enlightened enough to know about  that particular pleasure. I had no idea that it was known as cocooning. Did you know that? I […]

A unexpectedly perfect Sunday afternoon

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Yesterday was supposed to be a ski day – long planned and the snow seemed perfect. The visibility however, was anything but. If you can imagine fog thick enough that you feel like you’re skiing through a milk-shake, that was it. Horrible – and for me at least, scary, because I get disoriented and can’t […]

Recurring themes….or just never achieving what I set out to do….

Saturday, December 11th, 2010

This week I was putting the diary for 2011 into my Filofax and getting rid of the old one from 2009 – I always keep last year’s just in case. I have never been known to need it, but I know for sure that if I throw it away right away I will later discover […]

Less is most definitely more

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

Last Christmas I totally overdid it. After decorating the Church on Christmas Eve, Midnight Mass, a full day of cooking the Christmas lunch followed by two more days of cooking for our annual mulled wine and mince pie carol singing party, I ended up (on my birthday no less) in bed for two days with […]

All socked out…..

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

I’m done! I’ve met my deadline and I’m done! One pair of socks is already winging its way to Canada and the super-luminous socks will be delivered to their recipient this evening. I kind of hope he will be deliriously happy. My husband just laughed when I told him that. He still can’t get his […]