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Meal Planning Monday 5 August
oops, after being early last week I nearly forgot again this week - that's the summer holidays for you! I took 1st & 2ndSister swimming and for pizza today, having dropped the other two off at...
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Meal Planning Monday: 12 August
OK, it's official, these school holidays are officially sapping my strength blogging time! By the time I remember I have something to post, someone's playing computer games or doing their blog! And is...
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Well, I'm surviving the summer break and even ended up baking 3 cakes with 2ndSister at the end of last week. Still not getting around to making anything new, but I'm sure once Autumn and that...
View ArticleNothing Profound....
I haven't posted for AGES, it seems (almost two months! not that long really....)Not only have I had nothing profound to say, I just haven't felt like sharing. I've posted a few images of my latest...
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Quick Takes: The Cup Half Full edition
1.I don't know whether it's Advent, my medication, prayer, or simply the joy of the Christmas preparations, but I'm looking on the bright side a whole lot more these days. For example: I've been up...
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Meal Planning Monday: Last one of 2013
Cor blimey it's been absolutely ages since I was here. Yes, I've been menu planning along in the background but I've been keeping a bit quiet in terms of blogging so you haven't got to know! Plus my...
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let your light shine
I'm finally being commissioned as a Recognised Lay Minister in Pastoral Care today....eeek!!I've been doing my duties informally for a while now, as I missed the original commissioning due to severe...
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Two Littles. Plus Two Littles.
1stSister helping with candle duties at 4thSister's BaptismThis year will mark the tenth birthday of my first 'Little'. 1stSister hits 10 in October this year and most days it already feels like she's...
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Our Favourite Books for the Under 5s.
And for me, that matter! When I have to read the same facile Dora story every night it drives me mad - but the list below contains what I consider classics, and love to pull off the shelf and read with...
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I really don't think I should be here....
So many posts in such little time - can you tell I'm doing Jen's 'a post a day for 7 days' challenge? Head over to Conversion Diary to see who else is taking part and enjoy their posts!"I really don't...
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Prayers at the Abbey
So....I'm meant to be linking up with Jen at Conversion Diary to publish a post a day.Epic fail already! Yay!But - this week the littles and I have two baked banana and pecan breakfast loaves AND...
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7 Extraordinarily Quick Takes
1.I have discovered this week that even if taking part in a blogging challenge, posting every day just isn't possible for me. Sigh.2.I have discovered this week that even if I'm posting more regularly...
View ArticleLent Lite
For a moment here I thought I was having Lent-lite.And then I remembered that even though I didn't make it for ashing, that I was late with the kids' materials, I've cancelled my attendance at...
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7 thankful quick takes
1.Thank you, Lord. For exercise. Honestly, it makes such a difference to my outlook (if not to my fluctuating figure, yet) so I'm thankful for a husband who can take care of the kids while I do a...
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7 Quick Japanese takes
1.Well hello! I sent my husband on holiday to Japan for a week this week, resulting in a complete lack of blog posting and indeed doing much else other than make food for children, transport children,...
View ArticleThe How but not the Why: Musings on the Dawn Chorus
I bloody love science, me. Finding out how the world works, from the early hominids to mitochondrial DNA. And I remember when I started University, someone asked me how a faith in God could be...
View ArticleSolid as a rock?
It may or may not be more apparent by now that I have issues with St Paul. I'm sure at some point I'll go into those at great, uninteresting length. (In short - he was flawed, I am flawed, he rubs me...
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Versions of the Lord's Prayer
I say the Lord's Prayer every day.Not always the same version.And not really through any sense of duty, or because "that's how Jesus taught us to pray", either.I wrote before that maintaining a regular...
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Back to School - the laidback version
We are now returned from our holiday in France. Photos and a post on that later, I hope. But meanwhile, in honour of days which mainly revolved around when the shops were going to open and what we were...
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10 Michaelmas Facts
When I was at a Very Posh University we used to start the academic year with Michaelmas Term. I never really knew much then, not being Christian and all, about the Feast of Michaelmas, but I was...
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