Welcome to this week’s #MySundaySnapshot post, which is part of a snap-sharing-blog-linky series that you are very welcome to join. Click here for further information and guidelines upon this linky should you wish to take part. Given that we are each unique, I have a theory that we each view the world very differently, whether that’s due to having a different opinion, a different mindset, or perhaps even a different vision as in optical vision. I know that most of us can point to a particular colour and identify it by its name but are we truly seeing the same colour?…
Here we are, halfway through the year from hell – what I’d do to wake up one morning and to discover that the past six months have been nothing but a nightmare, sadly that’s not the case and so I continue to try and look at the lighter side of things. So without further ado, here are some of the things which I have #LikedandLoved throughout June. Fun In The Sun Every now and then (like once in a blue moon) us Northerners get to see the yellowy-orangy ball in the sky and though it’s often hidden behind a cloud, this week there were no clouds to be seen and the temperature shot up to a whopping thirty-something-degrees, leaving us with no other option other than to laze around like Brits abroad.…
Talk about hot weather, it was absolutely SCORCHIO last week and despite having a full day of homeschool planned and at the ready, we decided to ditch studying in favour of some fun in the sun. It was so hot that despite having the pool, the parasol, and all the summer stuff out we could only bare to brave the heat for a couple of hours before coming in for some shade. Keeping Cool In The Pool Fun In The Sun Even by the evening, the temperature was still above thirty degrees (celsius) and we spent the night tossing and turning with the windows wide open.…
Our little lady is so crafty and not just in the arty way. She loves nothing more than having a project to work upon, especially so if it results in creating something which she can use or display. During the early days of lockdown, E became really interested in using Hama beads to create various shapes and animals, which we then ironed and she hung in her window. E has since made a variety of rainbows which she has given to grandparents and family as gifts and this week she made her very own rainbow coaster! Whilst E has been a busy bee creating her rainbows and coaster, J meanwhile has created his very own animated cartoon!…
Welcome to this week’s #MySundaySnapshot post, which is part of a snap-sharing-blog-linky series that you are very welcome to join. Click here for further information and guidelines upon this linky should you wish to take part. I know it’s a bit British of me to complain but this week was so hot, wasn’t it? We had planned to carry out our very own ‘homeschool’ sports day on Thursday but with temperatures over thirty-odd degrees, there was no chance anyone was running anything other than the hosepipe! Don’t get me wrong, I love the hot weather but sadly my skin doesn’t feel the same way, thus I spend most of the summer sat under a parasol daubed in factor fifty.…
Where on earth is the time going to of late? It’s the last Friday of June already and here we are once again reflecting upon some of the brighter moments from the month gone by. Read I’ve spent the past month with my nose firmly wedged between the cover of many books and as mentioned last month – I downloaded some sample copies (the first few chapters) of Melissa Cynova’s ‘Kitchen Table Tarot’, Michelle Tea’s ‘Modern Tarot’ and Bakara Wintner’s ‘WTF Is Tarot & How Do I Do It?’, all of which I’ve since purchased and have read from cover to cover.…
Having reviewed and featured a number of tarot decks on this here blog, I was recently contacted by Schiffer (Red Feather) asking whether I would like to review a few more of their amazing tarot decks – well why not?! I was honoured to be asked to collaborate with Schiffer and couldn’t wait to be able to work with yet more tarot decks. Schiffer enquired as to which decks I may be interested in featuring and having flicked through their incredibly tempting catalogue, I asked whether it may be possible to have a copy of the new and revised second edition of The Mary El Tarot – a tarot deck which I’d heard of but never yet seen… Low and behold I was in luck and as a result, I am so pleased to be able to share this beautiful tarot deck with you, my lovely readers.…
Being an avid tarot card reader, I am also a keen deck collector and whilst living in lockdown over the past few months, I have whiled away some of my time by getting to grips with reading and using a variety of new tarot decks, including the marvellously modern and super stylish ‘Spirit Within Tarot‘ which Red Feather (Schiffer Publishing) very kindly sent me to review. The Spirit Within Tarot was designed and created by Steven Bright (born in London in 1972), a professional tarot reader who is also the creator of two tarot decks, a keen blogger, a tarot reviewer, and the founder of Tiferet Tarot. …
With all that’s happened since this year began, I’m not sure as to whether I actually explained our situation in regards to our son’s secondary school transition. Going back to March, we’d just been landed with the news that my Father was to undergo immediate brain surgery, and whilst we were unaware of his diagnosis at this point, you can imagine that things were fairly fraught. To add to our stress, we were then told that the secondary school which our son had hoped to attend was over-subscribed and as a result, he was offered his second-choice which wasn’t really what he nor I was hoping to hear.…
This looks like a fun-filled fabulous photo, right? WRONG! A picture only captures a split second, a moment in time, and whilst this split-second appears to capture two smiling, happy children, let me just fill you in on the thirty minutes prior to this photo being taken… Last week we had a series of rather impressive thunderstorms, one of which our daughter heard the faint onset of whilst out on a walk with her Dad, brother, and our basset. It was the tiniest rumble of thunder, yet E’s rather sudden and extreme response was to quite literally force her way into her Dad’s T-shirt, all whilst screaming and crying to get home.…
Welcome to this week’s #MySundaySnapshot post, which is part of a snap-sharing-blog-linky series that you are very welcome to join. Click here for further information and guidelines upon this linky should you wish to take part. I’ve spent this past week or two nostalgically looking back to a time in my life when things seemed rosy. I’ve found myself reminiscing upon happier times by listening to music, playing video games, reading books, and even watching footage from festivals and such-like from way back when things were ‘normal’. Normality is so far from reach right now I cannot even begin to explain… so rather than try to explain, I’ll simply share this beautiful image of rose which I captured earlier this month.…
Thanks to the glorious weather (minus the random thunderstorm and tropical downpour that we had yesterday) the children have been enjoying daily strolls through the fields and along the shore with their beloved basset. We are so lucky to live just a leap away from the beach, what more could a kid want than the sand dunes and the shore to slide and to stroll along at their leisure? Down In The Dunes A Sandy Stroll I won’t lie – I do tend to get a little fed up with the sandy socks constantly being thrown into the washing basket inside out and still full of sand. …
As we’ve had hot weather of late, the kids have been enjoying splashing about in their paddling pool together. J & E love nothing more than to squirt and to splash each other until their screams are so shrill that I have to remind them that we have neighbours! Whilst the kids are busy soaking one and other, I meanwhile tend to sit back on the sunlounger, well away from the bedlam thus avoiding being splashed or god forbid, getting wet. Pool Pals To say that we’ve been stuck in lockdown for twelve weeks or more and the kids have a four-year age gap, the kids have flabbergasted me with how well they have coped and have got along together.…
My kids are far from ordinary but I felt I ought to share this ‘Nerf-War’ moment as it is part of my normal. Whilst I was busy getting dressed and ready to visit my parents (which before you ask, is completely legal and acceptable as I am providing care during the lockdown) my kids were busy taking potshots at each other. My daughter had wisely worn her Baymax mask and had carefully placed bullets into her belt to be sure that she stood a safe but secure position in the nerf-war, whereas my son had opted for spy glasses, a nerf jacket, and his trusty nerf-watch. …
Welcome to this week’s #MySundaySnapshot post, which is part of a snap-sharing-blog-linky series that you are very welcome to join. Click here for further information and guidelines upon this linky should you wish to take part. Talk about a wasted effort – this past week has been completely and utterly pointless but it’s certainly taught me some life lessons, one of which is to embrace the moment and to ‘just do it’. There’s no point in hanging around wondering about the what-ifs, time waits for no man or woman for that matter. It’s no use staying inside and hiding from the World because your worried about what might happen, what other people may think or what could go wrong… get out and live life – So long of course, as you stay two meters apart from any passers-by and you abide by whatever rules are currently in place (not that they make any sense as our government can’t seem to make their minds up as to what we are doing).…
So here we are, however many weeks down the line still living in lockdown. Don’t get me wrong, I’d much prefer to be safe than sorry and am quite happy to live in lockdown for as long as necessary. I for one won’t be sending either of my children back to school until I deem it safe, which given that we are now four months down the track yet still entirely clueless about Covid19 may be some time… Despite the rather sticky and scary situation that we are all in, the kids are still smiling and for that, I give them both a thumbs up!…
We’ve been homeschooling the kids for almost four months now and whilst that sounds like a long time, it doesn’t really feel all that long. The kids have been amazing – they completely understand the situation in which we are in and despite their feelings of frustration in regards to missing their friends and family, they have not once lost their mojo. Both J & E have been given individual literacy and numeracy based tasks each morning and then during the afternoons, we tend to come together to work as a team on topic-based, project work. This week we conducted research upon the artists Arcimboldo and Picasso – each of the children then produced their very own self-portrait in the style of their chosen artist.…
Welcome to this week’s #MySundaySnapshot post, which is part of a snap-sharing-blog-linky series that you are very welcome to join. Click here for further information and guidelines upon this linky should you wish to take part. Things seem so far from normal right now and I’m not sure about you but I’m beginning to question the World in which we live… What kind of life, environment, and existence are we bringing our kids into?! With the never-ending realms of news headlines, I’m so glad to be living in the countryside, where somehow things feel ever so slightly removed from reality… Here’s a little snapshot capturing the colours from the countryside – may it bring a smile to your day.…
2020 has been the roughest ride of my life so far, it has been an endless waterfall of problems, upset and tragedy, which has taken some serious soul-searching and strength to get through. I’ve still got plenty of races left to run and I’m still far from the finish line but I’m staying strong and sticking with it. It is true that one must find strength during stormy weather, this may be physical strength, mental strength, or spiritual strength in my case. As you may have read (in my past posts) earlier this year my husband gifted me a brand new tarot deck, which in turn rekindled my love for reading the tarot.…
Half term came to a rather abrupt end as poor E has struggled and suffered from a bad bout of nosebleeds which led to us having to make a mad dash to the local (I say local – it’s actually a fifty-minute drive away) A&E department. Having being given the all-clear, E and I came home late last night and after a snack, a shower, and a story half-term was officially over. Telling The Time We’ve been keeping things as cool and as calm as possible today to prevent any further bleeds (she has had one but we soon stopped it!).…
