Hi, I'm Adelle and this is my corner of the internet that I have absolutely no idea what to do with. I'll get there eventually. Probably. Most recent posts ...
It's one year today since Ciri and Myshka came home. They are the silliest, weirdest little creatures I have ever had the good fortune to meet and every day, I've been grateful that they're a part of my life. Slightly less grateful when Myshka decided that my bed at 3am was the best place to "play" with the giant spider he'd half-eaten but other than that, much gratitude. Tomorrow is my birthday,…
Doing some stitching while watching Max Verstappen at the Nürburgring 24h. Will be watching the Eurovision final later on - I hate it but it's become an annual ritual in this house, a festival of cringe - with cocktails! Still sniffly but feeling a little better. Ciri has kidnapped Mr. Crocodile (Myshka's favourite toy) and dragged him to her crinkly bag lair but Myshka hasn't noticed yet, so…
So, that little trip to the office my husband went on a couple of weeks ago? Yeah, he brought home a souvenir, the really fun kind that a couple of days later has you making an emergency Deliveroo order for Sudafed, tissues, cough drops and Powerade. Husband recovered quickly and is feeling much better now, thank God. I unfortunately have the immune system of a sickly Victorian orphan, so it's…
So, as I mentioned in my last post, I'm a big fan of the Traveler's Notebook system. Unfortunately, I'm not so much of a fan of the aesthetics. The "lived in" look these dark, heavily patinaed leather covers have with all their scuffs and scratches are wonderful, I'm sure. They're just really not for me. I need colour and I need it to be on the outside of the journal because I am far too lazy to…
Trying to keep a regular journaling habit is something I really struggle with at times. I'd try not to beat myself up about it but more often than not, if I missed a few days or felt that I wasn't using the notebook enough, I'd feel guilty and end up buying a new one to clean the slate and start afresh... which just added to the guilt pile the next time it happened. I used to use Leuchtturm A5…
Nothing terribly exciting happened today, thank God, but I don't want to get out of the habit of posting little bits and pieces here because I'll forget the site exists and not touch it for six months. Which is absolutely what I've done with my Kobo - how do you forget that you enjoy something as fundamental as reading? Brains are so weird. Husband is back working in his usual spot and the house…
Today is a strange one. My poor husband has been dragged into the office for one of those corporate fun days because nothing is more fun than having to get up at 5am so you can spend three hours travelling. He's obviously having a far worse time of it than me but it's so weird for the house to be this quiet and to not wake up hearing the usual soundtrack of Dutch babbling. Also, having to make my…
Much like myself, our house is old and wonky. So much so that the drawer on my Billy bookcase refuses to stay closed because the floorboards gently slope downwards. A nightmare aesthetically, a disaster when you have a pair of furry terrorists who will take any and all opportunities to get to cat Narnia. This is how the drawer usually looks, if I don't wedge something in front of it but as it's at…
So, we have two Ragdoll cats, Ciri and Myshka. They both eat two pouches of wet food (along with their kitty kibble) a day and absolutely will not eat the same thing for both meals. (I'm leaving myself a reminder here to edit the formatting of the photos later, when I'm at my PC and not just noodling on my phone) We buy their wet food in bulk every month because who wants to pay shipping more than…
I've lost count how many times throughout the years I've agonised over that "all important" first blog post, not to mention all those attempts where I've just stared at a blank editor window for so long that I've just given up and closed the tab. I moved away from Wordpress and all of it's clutter to try and get back to the thing I actually want to do: to just write and not worry about all that…