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Was just absent due to a combination of being ill (twice), school holidays, my desk (and the area around it) being an off-putting mess, and life just doing its thing and randomly throwing shit at me. Gonna make this post a bullet-list of general updates and thoughts, as my daughter's due to wake up from a nap soon. ⋆ ★ ⋆ ★ ⋆ ★ ⋆ 🔸 Was mine and my husband's birthdays, back in April. I turned the…
This is for The Grizzly Gazette's Bear Blog Carnival , which, this month, is You're Favourite Unconventional Animal hosted by Oracle of Sages . ⋆ ★ ⋆ ★ ⋆ ★ ⋆ I can't remember when I first learned about tardigrades, but when I did, it was love at first sight. I mean, just look at 'em! All that cuteness concentrated into a near-microscopic squishy little sack. Bless, it looks likes an inflatable…
Yesterday was the spring equinox, and thankfully I'd just gotten over a really grim cold that made my sinuses feel like they were full of molten lava. So, yay! Happy Spring! Friday is my dedicated gym day 1 , but I was also itching to get a start on tidying the garden, so I decided to have the weather determine how I spent my first day of spring: wet would be gym, dry would be garden. Dry it was.…
I came across Forking Mad's post, Demoting Deodorant , and at the end, he asks, "Am I in the minority?" Now, I haven't the slightest clue as to the percentage of people blessed by the pit gods, but I can confidently say, "You're not alone." My husband, too, received their blessing. Once he had come of age, the gods looked down upon him and smiled. They chanted their heavenly incantations and…
I recently ditched Spotify 1 and made a Bandcamp account, last month. Unfortunately, I found out about Bandcamp Fridays the day after the last one, so I waited for this one, to start my collection on. (It was a test of patience, at first, but then it became nice to have something to look forward to. That, and it made buying the albums feel more special.) Since there won't be a BF next month, I…
Oh...my...god... I just saw this post by cinematicmoments , and talk about a blast from the past! The first computer I remember my parents owning was an old IBM Personal Computer , with a monochrome monitor. No idea what my parents actually used that computer for, apart from playing games, but that's all little me ever did with it. We had a few games for it, but the two I played the most were…
I wonder how many times I'm going to mess around with this blog's theme, before I finally feel it's finished. Especially when I keep changing things only to change them back again and then repeating the process several times over. I think I'm at least settled on the background. (We'll see how I feel about it, at a reasonable hour of the day, and not at nearly 2am.) Have a pic of my weird,…
I saw Syl's blog post and then Nick's , and I wanted to join in with the positive vibes, as well. When you randomly catch a scent that hurls you back to a very specific time and/or place, and you get hit with a wave of good feelings and happy memories. 1 Bumblebees. The bigger the better. Love the sight of a good roly poly bumble tumbling out of a large flower or landing on a small one and the…
Not been up to much, today. Went out to top up the bird feeders. (Neighbours prolly think I'm a bit mad, as I always talk to the birds when I go out, greeting them, apologising for letting any feeder go empty, and wishing them good luck with their day.) As I poured out some seed mix and replaced the hanging fat balls, a familiar rotund shape landed on the fence next to me. Loxley, our resident…
Hard to believe it, but it's true! The sun is actually shining! (Honestly, it was getting to the point where I was looking at photos of last spring and pining for the sun's return.) A sunny day, last spring. I look forward to being able to hang laundry outside again. (I'm aware this makes me sound like Boober Fraggle.) Not only has the sun decided to come out, but so too have the crocus and some…