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A manifesto for June

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

I found this on Leonie Wise’s blog. It’s her manifesto for June. Don’t you just love it!  To be honest, when I read it I thought it could be my manifesto for life. It checks all the boxes for me and fits really nicely with my search for order out of chaos, simplicity and more […]

Take time to stop and smell the roses

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Sometimes life just runs away with me. I seem to rush from one thing to the next, with hardly time to draw breath, my every move seemingly dictated by the never, ever finished to-do-list. If there were 48 hours in a day I would fill them. And I still wouldn’t get everything done. Then in […]

Phew…back on track…

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Phew…I think I’m under control again. I got the papers I was working on sent off to Sweden this morning and have worked like a trojan to lick the house into some semblance of shape . I made a management decision to just close the children’s bedroom doors and pretend that they aren’t my responsibility […]

Spread a little thinly…

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Life seems to be a little hectic (read frenetic) at the moment! The nature of my day job as a freelancer means that I never quite know when I’m going to have a lot of work and when there will be none at all. It tends to be a bit of a case of feast […]

Descent into chaos…

Monday, May 31st, 2010

I’ve been spending every spare minute over the last few days piecing Whirligigs. Unfortunately this always results in the same thing – the house and garden descend into chaos. For some reason no other member of my family even seems to notice this. Sound familiar, anyone? Today I had to take stock and decide that […]