on the edge of ordinary

I've been wanting to write about my little garden for a while now. What's been stopping me? I've concluded that it's because...

I write on this blog about my fairly ordinary life doing a not-so-ordinary job. It’s good to remind myself about that goal every now and the...

We've moved into another level of our camping obsession. In six years we've worn out the first tent we owned and have now purchased...

I came across a couple of articles about creativity ages ago and have just dragged them back out of my bulging "draft blog post" f...

It's been a huge weekend. I'm both tired and elated. Tonight I just want to share one small aspect of it, but I've worked toward...

I'm thinking about taking up a new hobby*: weaving and maybe spinning. During our holidays in September we spent several days at my sist...

Today's trip. Today we go camping again. This time we go 60km north-west of here to a place with a cool name: Chichibu. For the fi...

A few years ago I wrote about how I started cross stitching as a result of a psychologist "prescribing" something that would help...

I recovered from my adventure last Thursday and Friday pretty well. As you may know, I'm not a great traveller. It wears me out, even wh...

Today we've had no plans, no plans to go out. That usually ends up being a bad thing, even if us adults are craving a quiet home day, th...

Yesterday felt like a very normal Christmas to me. That is because it began in a very similar way to the Christmases I grew up with. We got ...

Creating is all very relaxing if it goes well, but I've "got a wrinkle" in my current creating. I wrote back here about sewin...

Reporting back on how my "quiet" day is going. I've managed to stay on-track. I did some baking. I stepped out of my comfort...

I'm trying to have a quieter week this week, after two crazy ones. I'll let you know at the end of the week if I managed. Today I...

I'm practising this piece at the moment. No particular reason except that I used to be able to play harder pieces than this . . . 20 yea...

I'm really happy about this new camping venture our family has taken on. One of the reasons is because it is becoming like a hobby...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote that I'd gotten the sewing machine out to help with holiday boredom – the boys' that is. The novelty...

It is quiet just now, so I'm taking the time to write. Amazing how much less quiet time I have now that the boys are at home! Actually, ...