I am catsitting for two friends in the neighbourhood. That means feeding them, mostly. Jayne has two elderly cats (but thank goodness, no pills) and a visiting cat known to her as Pirate. She is a soft touch, but Pirate evidently has other sources of food, and only turns up from time to time. Nevertheless, it is part of my job to look out for ( Read more... )

Well, briefly. Yesterday morning it was cold, -6 degrees C. Not used to it, left my gloves in the car at the farmers market and eventually had to give up and hand over to my SO and OS. They both have Raynauds Syndrome (get white fingers at any level of coldness) so do not forget gloves. By heck it was cold. Been warming up ever since, but we have a ( Read more... )

No, thats not quite the subject. I am a bit less overwhelmed now. Will try to post, but may have to up the overwhelmedness level again to cope with christmas. Plus I still have a living room full of boxes from sale of mothers house. She had a very big attic and lots of it has gone to the county archive and some to family archive but I still have ( Read more... )

I have been studying the ontological argument for the existence of God for the purposes of teaching, and it still does my head in. A swash of different arguments, all bonkers, and it is really hard to put the exact finger on why. The religious types who write the textbooks are easily convinced that Anselm, Descartes, Malcolm, were unassailable, ( Read more... )

Three of us went to a nice relaxed harvest supper at the local church last night. Home-cooked food and a quiz. My YS likes to be at the church, there are children at a wide range of ages he can hang with ( Read more... )

... but it looks like I might have fixed up an interesting work experience week for youngest. And my philosophy teaching opportunity got cancelled this week, so I can concentrate on my Contextual Studies (thats art history) presentation for next week ( Read more... )

September is always a sudden onslaught, just when I think I stand a chance of getting on top of things, and have got quite relaxed, it is like a tsunami. This year much as usual. The kids back at school, various things to be sorted out, my partner back at work, tension racked up, computers in use whenever he is in the house, me back at college, ( Read more... )

I've left a long gap as I often do. Why? I'm not sure. It is hard to communicate when I get out of the habit, and sometimes I am just being lazy (or kindly interpreted: tired and stressed). I have been away from home a lot and I try to give the boys some attention in the holidays, to do what I meant to do as a stay at home mum. OS has got so huge ( Read more... )

I had ideas about being productive after finishing my college course - we put everything out to be evaluated last Monday. But I have been really tired, from the last minute rushing, from the financial worries about my Mum and pressure of trying to sort out things in her house which is being sold, and I have kind of wound down and down and finally ( Read more... )

We now have three antique clocks, two of which work. The first one is a mantelpiece clock of my father's, which lived in his office, and probably in his father's office before that. It has had its mechanism replaced, but it stopped working when it got knocked off a surface ages ago. The second one is an 'English Clock', which is about a foot in ( Read more... )