In this mad and beautiful world? Well, I had a loooooong blogging break partly because I was finding WordPress a bit of a trial but mainly because one of the blogging buddies I’d made on here h...
https://sealingwaxandstring.wordpress.com/2019/12/21/where-am-i/
Recently, a birthday was had. Usually on this day, the Teen and I head off to Stratford upon Avon where we wander, lunch and drift down to the river for ice cream, via the RSC so I can buy a year...
https://sealingwaxandstring.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/fossicking-amongst-the-fossils/
I cannot remember a time of my life when I have not been afraid of spiders. Some of it is learned behaviour (I do after all have a mother who moves the furniture to hoover underneath on a regular...
You know how some weeks can feel like a year? As though you’re wading through the days as though through treacle? When the corners of your mouth won’t turn up despite your best efforts, and t...
I have reclaimed my house after an Easter visit from the Teen. They are, obviously, a delight to have around, the apple of my eye, the spring in my step and the beat of my maternal heart, and I r...
https://sealingwaxandstring.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/right-here-right-now/
So I did it. I took the plunge, made the commitment, promised to be a better person, signed on the dotted line, forsook the ideas of lazy Sundays and made a step in the direction of …what? A ne...
https://sealingwaxandstring.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/the-way-of-the-wellington/
Over the course of my adult life, I have gathered a small but nourishing collection of cookbooks. They sit on a shelf in the dining room, their spines marked by my attempts to cook from them, the...
https://sealingwaxandstring.wordpress.com/2017/03/23/a-little-cheesy/
long while since I last posted. To be honest, I’m still in two minds as to whether this gets posted or not. Do I really need another online thing to consider, what with my social media, my work...
https://sealingwaxandstring.wordpress.com/2017/03/17/hasnt-that-been-a/
Well now, hasn’t that been a year to make you stop and think. The Teen and I have been through some upheavals: family health, new job for me, new house in a city for both of us, the loss of our...
https://sealingwaxandstring.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/rounding-off/
For a long time, I’ve held the entirely unscientifically tested theory that every three to four years something comes along and shakes me from my foundations. Some of these things are naturally...