Wow, it has been awhile! Life does tend to do that, getting in the way or just being there like a giant sponge to suck up all the positive energy you possess. Maybe it’s the weather, plus 15 one day then plunging to -10 the next. With her new quilty
Breakfast
Gluten Free Waffles
Gluten Free Waffles are a quick start to the day! Here we make up a batch and freeze in segments to be popped in the toaster and into hungry tummies in about 5 minutes. The tricky part of course is the gluten free flour, and though there are many on
Life Lists
The Xmas Binge List 2023
It’s a rarity for me, 10 days off over Xmas; sadly my wife has to work through the holidays so Sam and I are left to our own devices. Amongst other activities we have prepared 14 bags of clothes for giveaway to our buy nothing Facebook group (great concept –
Day To Day Lists
The Significance of 6000
The number 6000 has significance: But there is a 6000 we should not be proud of, it is the number of children killed in Gaza in the last two months, and for that there needs to be more than 6000 thoughts and prayers. Just saying… 🙁
Poetry
The Scent of Sunshine
We are the scent of sunshine,drifting, soaring like butterflieso’er fields not yet mownto land upon an apple limboutstretched and hangingverdant with the nectar pommeneath cotton wool and cyan skythat stretches far beyondthe waking call of baby’s cry. We are the breath of moonlightyellow streaks on placid pondsor winking through charcoal
Poetry
Colours of Joy
The song is blueocean wavescrashingagainst a topaz shore‘neath starsexplodingviolet – magenta – greenand rosebudsfluttertiny crimson heartstwistingin the breezebeneath his fingers and then… it ends. inky curtainsshut against the nightand tiny stars disappearin puffs of yellow dust. ml’23 (Listening to David Gilmour ‘Comfortably Numb – Live at Pompei’)