Only two days to go until the start of Advent…are you excited about Christmas yet? Well, actually…less so than small people. That’s the trouble. Sooner or later you get a tricky Christmas, then you start to realise that this time of year can actually be quite hard work. And that’s before the exhausting pre-Christmas schedule …
Category archives: Moments
Pigeon formation team
It’s bright today. That’s good. We need a little comfort where we can find it, when temperatures drop – and here it is in the ash trees that are still in (autumnal coloured) leaf, the brightness of the sun on them…and the pigeons. There’s a man who lives maybe five minutes away on foot who …
A little darkness
I’m borrowing this one from yesterday, really. But I’ll no doubt be able to experience it again in another half an hour anyway. It’s that final pottering and turning off of lights, closing down the home for another day. And what makes it easier? Low light. If you’re at the tail end of the day, …
Half way
Not in the month – it’s the 26th November already. If I’m feeling confident, I could say I’m cruising my way to filling the box of delights, and putting the top on. But half way is all about the route to school pick up, and the point that reassures – in lots of ways. The …
Musical chairs
Sometimes it takes something small to set larger things in motion. Anticipating visitors, we do a bit of reorganising of the sitting room. Then we remember that we have a guest over Hogmanay. So we do a bit of moving things round to allow for that too, now we’ve started. Then we remember that we’re …