Anybody home? Perhaps it's time I came back.

Those of you who have been reading this on-and-off journal for a while may remember this post where I told of the sudden and unexpected loss of our first grandchild at thirty seven weeks gestation.

The good news is that we are joyfully happily nervously awaiting the arrival of grandchild no 2, due in around ten weeks time.

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I am tired today. Really tired. We have averaged a mere four and a quarter hours sleep per night over the past four nights and it is beginning to tell. Friday night, we caught up with two friends who are moving out of the area. They stayed late and we certainly didn't discourage them, but the early rising the following morning to deal with a pile ( Read more... )

The Scene: A street in very small-town Foxton, New Zealand. A hedge separates the footpath from a backyard ( Read more... )

I don't usually do these "We can tell you what you are's" but this result is not at all unexpected. I've always felt I have both male and female mental/behavioral characteristics.


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Did it.

That is all.

I came across these in another place as a result of linking around from the Nano site. You may have seen them before, but they are fresh to me ( Read more... )

Not Dave Chapelle or Black Seeds, but Nano. 'Tis going well, peoples - going well, although I'm a tad behind, thanks to some unforseen events eating some of my November days. Three strong threads, one of which came in a dream, are doing the business to the fledgling novel. The Manpet, aka Mr. Dir, has been having a quiet read and he says he really ( Read more... )

Am I nutz ( Read more... )