I got a lot of questions and criticisms about having so many animals while bethend was pregnant. People expected me to get rid of four cats (and some chickens and a hamster) because of risk to the baby. Even though we had weighed up the risks, made a special moses …
So, the hiatus went on a little longer than expected but as part of my pledge to write 200,000 words in 2019, I’m back. More on that pledge later. 2018 hasn’t been a great year. Between work and my mental health, it’s been rough. We had big plans at the …
The Aber Ffoto Marathon was back on this year. We did it for the first time in 2016 when Snappy was a baby and it was easier to carry him everywhere. We had a lot of fun and we were gutted when they weren’t able to do the ffoto marathon last …
Yesterday I went to my first conference. Ever. I’m not really a conference person. In that they involve people, strangers, and always struck me as a thing you went to if you had a career or were you know, an adult. Or at least an adultier adult. I don’t even …
As you can see from the site, I’ve have taken a little break from blogging. Actually, I took a little break from a lot of things. It would be easy to blame it on the current lack of internet connection (currently using the BT Open Wi-Fi) and while it doesn’t …
It’s September, summer is over and the kids go back to school in two days. There’s are more than twenty kids under 13 on my section of the street alone. It’s been a long six weeks. But August us a great month because it was Snappy’s second birthday and we …
Today is Snappy’s second birthday and I cannot describe to you how awesome the last two years have been. The last two months. The last two days. Today, I let him take a two-hour nap on my lap today because he told me he was happy right before he dozed off. …
So a couple of weeks ago I had a week off work. Mostly just to recharge from work – I tend to take my holidays after my colleague goes on holiday cause the week he is off is usually hell. Sometimes he takes the week off after I have my week …
