Notes from the Slow Lane

A challenge to myself and to my usually gloomy outlook: to find and write about some best bits or favourite things from the past year. Kni...

Finally a finished piece of knitting to show off, a little jumper for a baby cousin, the pattern is Fiddlehead Pullover and the yarn Patons...

A couple of weeks ago my dad and I had great fun making our own Christmas cake, which due to an intolerance to eggs running in the family, w...

Once again I cannot sleep.  No matter how relaxed I try to get before bed as soon as I lie down I get tense and my jaw clenches and the more...

A rare bit of baking, Nigella Lawson's Coca Cola Cake from How to be a domestic goddess .  Tastes rather good, even if I say so myself. ...

Life has somehow overtaken me and I am now two weeks behind in "52 weeks of happy", it may be challenging remembering what happene...

This has been a slightly strange week, during which the admonition to "Rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn...

Another bad week, I suppose it's a crash or what some people call a "fibro flare".  My mood is very mixed too which makes thin...

Aren't the weeks and days leading up to Christmas manic? Though my "manic" is probably most people's fairly ordinary, but ...

Today my dad and I marked "stir up Sunday" by making Christmas puddings, dad does love a good tradition. He loves Christmas puddin...

I haven't posted for a while because there hasn't been a lot to say. It's just more of the same, more feeling awful, more waitin...

I've spent the past few weeks mostly recovering from the benefits appeal, which mercifully I won. But it was a huge trauma and stress, ...

Today, since we are still surrounded by acres of snow, I held a tea party to which our dear neighbours came and for this purpose I baked. I...