Esme and Mummy flying together
Sunday, 21 February 2016
8/52 The GraceFaith year long art project...
Choosing a favourite piece of art, each week of the year...
Esme and Mummy flying together
Esme and Mummy flying together
Saturday, 20 February 2016
Coeliac V Stomach ulcer - Tummy Troubles (1)
So they go in looking for coeliac disease, and they come out finding a stomach ulcer.
Good job that I gave up coffee. Not so good that I left it so long.
I'm convinced it's the sheer amount of coffee I consumed year after year that led to an ulcer.
Oh and stress of course. For motherhood and my Life As It Is has certainly been stressful at times. Goodness, you only have to read this or this to see how manic it has been. And what did I nearly always turn to on these occasions? A goodglass bottle of wine. Mmm. Like a lot of us do. Alas, no more for me I'm afraid. Doctor's orders.
Tonight will be my last hurrah for a while. Out to a joint 40th to enjoy letting my hair down before I stop drinking booze for 6 weeks. The thought itself is enough to finish me off. I've never been up for a dry January - let alone a dry part Feb, March, and part April. Feck!
Good job that I gave up coffee. Not so good that I left it so long.
I'm convinced it's the sheer amount of coffee I consumed year after year that led to an ulcer.
Oh and stress of course. For motherhood and my Life As It Is has certainly been stressful at times. Goodness, you only have to read this or this to see how manic it has been. And what did I nearly always turn to on these occasions? A good
Tonight will be my last hurrah for a while. Out to a joint 40th to enjoy letting my hair down before I stop drinking booze for 6 weeks. The thought itself is enough to finish me off. I've never been up for a dry January - let alone a dry part Feb, March, and part April. Feck!
A parting thought... and a sobering one at that... endoscopes are not pleasant.
Sunday, 14 February 2016
7/52 The GraceFaith year long art project
Choosing a favourite piece of art, each week of the year
Esme plans a blanket design
Esme plans a blanket design
Thursday, 11 February 2016
LIFE AS IT IS - Tummy Troubles
Off for a gastro camera today. Not worried about it although I'm sure it won't be that easy to stomach. There's a question mark over coeliac disease. And not just with me.
Fia had cameras both ends a few months ago due to blood in her stools. After almost a year of wondering, they found and removed a polyp that had been 4x2 cms in size. Huge. Certainly for a wee girlie.
Unbelievably (or perhaps not), the hospital phoned me yesterday to say that they had not tested the blood they took last month correctly, and that she will need yet another blood test. It will be her sixth.
So from a mother who has been told her child is not a coeliac, I now wait to find out again. I now have the pleasure of taking her for another blood test.
And I told her there would be no more needles for a very long time.
That's our current LIFE AS IT IS...
coeliac.org.uk
Fia had cameras both ends a few months ago due to blood in her stools. After almost a year of wondering, they found and removed a polyp that had been 4x2 cms in size. Huge. Certainly for a wee girlie.
Unbelievably (or perhaps not), the hospital phoned me yesterday to say that they had not tested the blood they took last month correctly, and that she will need yet another blood test. It will be her sixth.
So from a mother who has been told her child is not a coeliac, I now wait to find out again. I now have the pleasure of taking her for another blood test.
And I told her there would be no more needles for a very long time.
That's our current LIFE AS IT IS...
coeliac.org.uk
Tuesday, 9 February 2016
When all around you is a monstrous sea - A poem
A monstrous sea whips all around,
Waves engulf you whole.
Beyond your depth, fighting for breath,
Totally out of control.
My advice: Open the vodka.
Waves engulf you whole.
Beyond your depth, fighting for breath,
Totally out of control.
My advice: Open the vodka.
Sunday, 7 February 2016
Thursday, 4 February 2016
ARCTIC CONDITIONS
There's an unspeakable beauty about a place like this.
And really… seeing is the only way of truly communicating that beauty.
For breathtaking, it renders the observer mute.
And how could one possibly recreate that vision through words anyway?
Visiting for yourself is the only way to understand.
When she's not off gadding, Freelance travel writer Emma Oliver can be found WritingLifeAsItIs.blogspot.co.uk
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
Monday, 1 February 2016
déjeune en Paris
Sunday, 31 January 2016
5/52 The GraceFaith year long art project
Choosing a favourite piece of art, every week of the year...
Thursday, 28 January 2016
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Sunday, 24 January 2016
Thursday, 21 January 2016
FURTHER TRAVEL TALES: Tanami Treasure
In a near forgotten past and in a life before children, there was a young girl who wandered without bags under her eyes but with a bag on her back. Here she returns to notes she made within the haunting beauty of the Australian outback, recalling an encounter with Aborigines.
Sunday, 17 January 2016
3/52 The GraceFaith year long art project
Choosing a favourite piece of art, each week of the year...
My new clay pencil holder!
My new clay pencil holder!
Sunday, 10 January 2016
2/52 The GraceFaith year long art project...
...choosing a favourite piece of art, each week of the year
Saturday, 9 January 2016
LIFE AS IT IS resumes
The house was finished on the 23rd of December and we moved back into the kitchen on Christmas Eve. Talk about cutting it fine. Fortunately, the tree had gone up the week before just as soon as the newly laid floor was down. The sight of the children decorating it all by themselves for the first year ever was enough to catapult me into the Christmas spirit that had been missing up until then. Of course, things remained undone, such as the mistletoe which never made it to the ceiling, and the fresh wreath that never found the front door. Not to mention the lack of decorations about the house - sparse in comparison to Christmases gone before. But the point is, after eight weeks of extension build and alterations, we got there. And Christmas 2015 was indeed one to remember. Together, in our beautiful new home.
Wednesday, 6 January 2016
Hello Nature - A book review
Just want to mention this book that I've come across recently, 'suitable for all nature enthusiasts over 8'. A book that is packed with fascinating facts and brilliant activities, and if it could, would fit perfectly into the green science and nature wedge in Trivial Pursuit.
Hello Nature by Nina Chakrabarti is all to do with drawing, colouring, making and growing, and answers fantastic questions that children are bound to ask along the way, such as... What is the difference between a frog and a toad? How are snowflakes formed? Can you identify a tree from its leaves? And Fia's personal favourite: Why do snails make slime?
Nina Chakrabarti urges children to explore the weird and wonderful things they can find all around them. Perfect for all enquiring minds, this book is a breath of fresh air - bringing the outdoors inside.
The paper used, and the size of the book, along with the doodle style illustrations, give it a rather wonderful 'scrapbook' connotation. If I'm honest, it's the sort of year long diary I wished I had created in childhood, (or in 2015).
Simply exquisite, don't you just love Laurence King for making the ordinary, extra-ordinary?
Priced: £12.95
Written by: Nina Chakrabarti
Published by and available from: Laurence King
© 2016 Nina Chakrabarti
Hello Nature by Nina Chakrabarti is all to do with drawing, colouring, making and growing, and answers fantastic questions that children are bound to ask along the way, such as... What is the difference between a frog and a toad? How are snowflakes formed? Can you identify a tree from its leaves? And Fia's personal favourite: Why do snails make slime?
Nina Chakrabarti urges children to explore the weird and wonderful things they can find all around them. Perfect for all enquiring minds, this book is a breath of fresh air - bringing the outdoors inside.
The paper used, and the size of the book, along with the doodle style illustrations, give it a rather wonderful 'scrapbook' connotation. If I'm honest, it's the sort of year long diary I wished I had created in childhood, (or in 2015).
Simply exquisite, don't you just love Laurence King for making the ordinary, extra-ordinary?
Priced: £12.95
Written by: Nina Chakrabarti
Published by and available from: Laurence King
© 2016 Nina Chakrabarti
Sunday, 3 January 2016
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