Yes, I am On My Holidays!!
Finally, I've a chance to rest a bit, walk a bit, tidy up the house and get sorted for our trip to Sweden in about a week's time.
I am also trying to do a bit of spinning every day, and hopefully will get some knitting/crochet done in Sweden.
The weather is not very summery, but I don't mind for now, I prefer it when the weather isn't extreme. My idea of extreme is anything above 22 degrees Centigrade!
Hope people out there are enjoying your summer, wherever you are, or your Winter if you are Down Under in Australia!
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Thursday, June 27, 2013
almost there!
second last day in school today,
holidays tomorrow! Yippee!!!
sports day and raising of Green Flag yesterday, hurray!
roll on Friday afternoon!
holidays tomorrow! Yippee!!!
sports day and raising of Green Flag yesterday, hurray!
roll on Friday afternoon!
Monday, June 17, 2013
displacement activities
is that what it's called when you do not do the task that you really need to do, the one that you have to do for work, the one with the looming deadline, and instead choose to do things like write in your blog, or search online for spinning wheels for sale in Munster Ireland (found one for sale in Kerry) or even in Karlstad Sweden, cause really I Cannot Possibly Go On Holidays Without A Wheel......
meanwhile the piles of reports and tests remain by my side, yes, well I'll be back at them very shortly now
and as for my 2 beautiful spinning wheels, well, I dream of spinning, and I croon to my wheels as I walk past them 'Soon, my lovelies, soon, I will be free to sit and spin.....'
Just another 2 weeks, less than that now as it is now only 9 school days left.....
meanwhile the piles of reports and tests remain by my side, yes, well I'll be back at them very shortly now
and as for my 2 beautiful spinning wheels, well, I dream of spinning, and I croon to my wheels as I walk past them 'Soon, my lovelies, soon, I will be free to sit and spin.....'
Just another 2 weeks, less than that now as it is now only 9 school days left.....
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Lovely June Sunday morning
It's a lovely Sunday morning in June, what I mean is it's dry, not raining and a bit overcast, but the forecast os good. (Can you tell that my favourite TV programme of all time is the Weather Forecast? and that I love that there's a new one with new pictures every evening?)
I am at my computer, obvs, trying to download a thing called Nitro reader, free pdf reader and creator, and thankfully I have now succeeded. I needed this Nitro in order to wr ite my end-of-year school report cards, an onerous task which will probably take most of today and tomorrow, bleurgh...., but it has to be done.
I had a lovely walk/run at 8am this morning, (I am now trying to lose a bit of the baby fat, the child is 7 years old after all, it'd be time for me, eh?) Although Run is a bit of an exaggeration, Accelerated Shuffle might be a more apt description. Still, I'm up and out and about, and that has to be a good thing.
Father's day today, gotta make sure two dads in this world are happy, my own and my childrens' dad!
Hope ye have a good day today!
I am at my computer, obvs, trying to download a thing called Nitro reader, free pdf reader and creator, and thankfully I have now succeeded. I needed this Nitro in order to wr ite my end-of-year school report cards, an onerous task which will probably take most of today and tomorrow, bleurgh...., but it has to be done.
I had a lovely walk/run at 8am this morning, (I am now trying to lose a bit of the baby fat, the child is 7 years old after all, it'd be time for me, eh?) Although Run is a bit of an exaggeration, Accelerated Shuffle might be a more apt description. Still, I'm up and out and about, and that has to be a good thing.
Father's day today, gotta make sure two dads in this world are happy, my own and my childrens' dad!
Hope ye have a good day today!
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
I'm back!
I'm back in business again, writing a bit in here and reading your blogs!
Holidays soon, thankfully.
My eldest daughter turned 18, amazing!
We had a glorious week of summer weather in Ireland, but the Weather Gods are making up for that now by pelting us with rain, like the rain we usually get, plus the backlog of rain we didn't get last week as well as penalties and fines for daring to not get rain for a week.
Still, I am ok with the rain, it softens the earth, nourishes and waters the fields and grass and plants and gives life.
I was at a Graduation Ceremony yesterday in Limerick, my brother became a medical doctor, Well Done J!
I have 2 weeks left of school until the holidays Yippee
Holidays soon, thankfully.
My eldest daughter turned 18, amazing!
We had a glorious week of summer weather in Ireland, but the Weather Gods are making up for that now by pelting us with rain, like the rain we usually get, plus the backlog of rain we didn't get last week as well as penalties and fines for daring to not get rain for a week.
Still, I am ok with the rain, it softens the earth, nourishes and waters the fields and grass and plants and gives life.
I was at a Graduation Ceremony yesterday in Limerick, my brother became a medical doctor, Well Done J!
I have 2 weeks left of school until the holidays Yippee
Thursday, May 16, 2013
long long time no speak
Well, people,
how are you all out there in bloggland....
It has been a very long time since last I wrote in this little blog, for this I apologise.
For a little while there, I even thought of erasing and deleting the blogg, but then when it came to the crunch I couldn't do it, at least not yet.
I believe that for a blog to be enjoyable and interesting the writer probably should have a good camera and the time to sit and upload the photos and actually get them on the blog; as well as which the writer ought to have the time to write something on the blog every so often (at least weekly).
Unfortunately I do not have these things: husband has an excellent camera, but I have not got the time to get to grips with it, nor do I have the time to put up the photos I do take with my little mobile phone camera nor time for writing as frequently as I would like.
So should I close up the blog or not? Well I am not deciding on that yet.
Life has just been busy around here with the usual, work, children and husband, the house, and more work.
Here's a quick summary:
March 2013: St Patrick's Day and dear daughter's 16th birthday.
April 2013: Easter and holidays and dear son's 7th birthday. 2 German students came and stayed for a week in our house, as part of an exchange programme organised by my daughters' school.
May 2013: 4 Swedes came and visited, and my Swede showed them around County Clare and Adare and Limerick etc.
Husband's birthday this week. Cake at the weekend to celebrate maybe?
Some spinning gets done, some walking, some photos get taken of clouds, wild flowers, wool and spinning wheels, but of course they remain safe and sound in the mobile phone.
For now I will continue to be a blogger, intermittently so.
I can assure you all that I love to read the updates on all my followed blogs as often as I can.I must say it has been lovely to read how life is for different women around the world, via these amazing things called blogs.
Good Luck to you all in your endeavours for the rest of the week and the weekend,
I hope to be back soon again
E
how are you all out there in bloggland....
It has been a very long time since last I wrote in this little blog, for this I apologise.
For a little while there, I even thought of erasing and deleting the blogg, but then when it came to the crunch I couldn't do it, at least not yet.
I believe that for a blog to be enjoyable and interesting the writer probably should have a good camera and the time to sit and upload the photos and actually get them on the blog; as well as which the writer ought to have the time to write something on the blog every so often (at least weekly).
Unfortunately I do not have these things: husband has an excellent camera, but I have not got the time to get to grips with it, nor do I have the time to put up the photos I do take with my little mobile phone camera nor time for writing as frequently as I would like.
So should I close up the blog or not? Well I am not deciding on that yet.
Life has just been busy around here with the usual, work, children and husband, the house, and more work.
Here's a quick summary:
March 2013: St Patrick's Day and dear daughter's 16th birthday.
April 2013: Easter and holidays and dear son's 7th birthday. 2 German students came and stayed for a week in our house, as part of an exchange programme organised by my daughters' school.
May 2013: 4 Swedes came and visited, and my Swede showed them around County Clare and Adare and Limerick etc.
Husband's birthday this week. Cake at the weekend to celebrate maybe?
Some spinning gets done, some walking, some photos get taken of clouds, wild flowers, wool and spinning wheels, but of course they remain safe and sound in the mobile phone.
For now I will continue to be a blogger, intermittently so.
I can assure you all that I love to read the updates on all my followed blogs as often as I can.I must say it has been lovely to read how life is for different women around the world, via these amazing things called blogs.
Good Luck to you all in your endeavours for the rest of the week and the weekend,
I hope to be back soon again
E
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Happy St Patrick's Day!
Hope you all had a good St Patrick's Day!
I had a peaceful day, just me and one child left at home, while the others were away, either working or staying over at the cousins or gone to see a parade with their dad!
So I got out my spinning wheel and plied the 2 bobbins of dark brown singles I finished spinning a few days ago.
Tomorrow I hope to start a new spinning project, maybe a blue or a red or, or, or.....
so many choices, so many colours and types of fleece, ..... sigh....
Apologies for being away so long, since I got the new laptop and the new internet wifi router, my laptop has been appropriated by the offspring and it becomes difficult to wrestle it off them.....
I am here, nevertheless, working away, and marking my copies and trying to spin, knit and crochet a bit as well as work and walk and relax.
Last week I gave a spinning demo at the local Expo, I took my 2 wheels.
Spring is definitely here, daffodils are out and some primroses too. It is cold, colder than normal for this time of year, so we are still well wrapped up in winter woolies.
This weekend, we ahve a long weekend, tomorrow Monday is a Public Holiday, (for St Patrick's Day). So this week is only a 4 day week. Then on Friday, 22nd March. we get our school Easter holidays, woop woop!!
2 weeks off, yummy.
Hope ye have had a good weekend so far and enjoy the week!
L
I had a peaceful day, just me and one child left at home, while the others were away, either working or staying over at the cousins or gone to see a parade with their dad!
So I got out my spinning wheel and plied the 2 bobbins of dark brown singles I finished spinning a few days ago.
Tomorrow I hope to start a new spinning project, maybe a blue or a red or, or, or.....
so many choices, so many colours and types of fleece, ..... sigh....
Apologies for being away so long, since I got the new laptop and the new internet wifi router, my laptop has been appropriated by the offspring and it becomes difficult to wrestle it off them.....
I am here, nevertheless, working away, and marking my copies and trying to spin, knit and crochet a bit as well as work and walk and relax.
Last week I gave a spinning demo at the local Expo, I took my 2 wheels.
Spring is definitely here, daffodils are out and some primroses too. It is cold, colder than normal for this time of year, so we are still well wrapped up in winter woolies.
This weekend, we ahve a long weekend, tomorrow Monday is a Public Holiday, (for St Patrick's Day). So this week is only a 4 day week. Then on Friday, 22nd March. we get our school Easter holidays, woop woop!!
2 weeks off, yummy.
Hope ye have had a good weekend so far and enjoy the week!
L
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