Having confirmed my love of staying in, in yesterday’s post, it’ll come as no surprise that TV is part of the picture. Except. Except. Evenings are actually quite full already. Washing, dishes, prepping for the next day, trying to push back the waves of paper that come into the house. While someone else is working, …
Category archives: Moments
Down tools
Perhaps I should begin with the candles. To light them, to pass my hands over them, and say a blessing. To cover my hair, and to declare ‘Shabbat Shalom’. Because I understand why Friday night is a thing of wonder, a night when rest begins, when time stretches into another day that also has its …
Dresser
Not snappy. Just beautiful, and off-white, and FULL: glasses, special crockery, everyday plates. And cookbooks? Did I mention the cookbooks? And the fruit bowls. And, currently, the money box for copper coins that, one day a year, disgorges its contents into something easy to carry so that I can trade them in for a money …
Hunt the moment
A different feeling today. The sickness and the cold have been (mostly) banished. It’s back to school, back to the morning school run for one parent – and time for the other to get the house back again. Except that it’s been rather lovely, the weekend extending by two days. Once the obligatory school phone …
T’internet
That’s what my brother refers to it as. Being based in Yorkshire as he is, you’ve got to get in your t’s while you can. It seems a strange one to put in the box, when it’s also work, rest, and a speedy route to Christmas present decision making, but there it is. Why today? …