Daybook

Outside my window it is mostly cloudy with the smallest patches of blue, will today be a dry day or more rain I wonder?

I am thinking about some dear friends who have just moved a long way from us, over to Ireland, I miss them all very much but hope that they are slowly settling into their new home and life in a new country.

I am thankful to all the lovely bloggers who left such lovely comments on my last post which was my first in three years.  I am so grateful to have been welcomed back so wonderfully into the world of blogging.

In my kitchen is a bowl of pancake mix fermenting well (it is supposed to be doing that!), a bowl of chickpeas soaking for making humous, a bowl of quinoa soaking for tea tonight, a pan of dandelion root tea waiting to be drunk and pile of washing up on the side.

I have finally finished a cardigan that has been on the needles for over a year, I will share on another post, I am now looking forward to casting on some new projects for now I am using up some ends of balls, I am creating a new cowl for me.

Cameron now has paper round in the village, this afternoon I am going to take him to a nearby town so that he can spend some of his hard earned pennies, he is saving most of his earnings but every now and again he will make a small purchase or two.

I am wondering if the large number of small changes that we have had in our lives over the past few months are now going to stop piling up.

I have a huge pile of books on my bedside table waiting to be read, at the moment I am reading a couple of them, So Shall We Reap by Colin Tudge in which he proposes some interesting alternatives to our current intensive and industrialised farming methods to feed the world.  The other is a completely different book, The Gut Wellness Guide, I am working my way slowly through this book which is a mixture of self help techniques and easy to read science of how your body functions.

I am looking forward to this week which is full of time at home, last week was really busy out and about somewhere every day.

Around the house there is washing drying (too much rain at the moment to hang it outside), a sleeping bag airing after recent use on a scout camp, a bag of out grown clothes waiting to go into storage in the loft, items precious to Alice that she doesn't want to pass on, all down the hall is a procession of lego vehicles waiting patiently for play to start again.

I have recently read a few books about the pace of life in Scandinavia and what makes their populations happier in worldwide polls, I came across some wonderful proverbs in one of these books a favourite quote amongst these was, 'better an honest no than an insincere yes'.  This is most definitely my moto in life, something I was following before I knew it was a Swedish proverb!

We have a few plans for the rest of this week, which involve mostly being quiet and restful at home.

With all those changes that we have had over the past few months I am pondering our rhythm and the shape of our week in the months to come, Alice and Cameron are both still home educated and have not expressed any desire to start attending school any time soon.

I have recently become the proud owner of a new laptop, after seven years of use my tablet was getting a little slow and unreliable, I am learning, slowly, my way around this new device.  The last laptop I owned was in the mid 90s when I was at university the new one is very different to that machine!

I am wearing a made by me linen top, linen trousers and am barefoot.

I love the quiet in our house in the mornings so I am listening to, and enjoying, the stillness and the silence of the house as the day slowly gets going.

A peak into my day.