Can’t Hear The Chaos

Can't Hear

Lets be clear here

Visiting the dentist yet again (long story) this week got me really thinking a lot about face masks. I have grown to dislike them immensely over the last weeks, but not for the reasons you might think. It’s not that I dislike wearing them personally; I will more than happily ...
Can't Hear

The Sound Collector

A stranger called this morning, dressed all in black and grey. Put every sound into a bag, and carried them away. The whistling of the kettle, the turning of the lock. The purring of the kitten, the ticking of the clock. The popping of the toaster, the crunching of the ...
The Chaos

The new normal?

11 weeks into lockdown and I think I have been managing to hold it all together for the most part. However this week has been hard. I don’t know, perhaps having had a pretty good week with the ginger one – and very few arguments and tension between the small ...
The Chaos

Unplugged

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes… including you.”    –   Anne Lamott. This week has been strange. I have had a whole week to myself after spending 10 weeks indoors with children who were quite frankly on the verge of killing each other. ...
The Chaos

If you can’t say nuffin’ nice…

My mini ginger ninja suffers from anxiety which the current pandemic has most certainly done nothing to improve. We haven’t been out of the house in weeks; at the beginning, he grudgingly accompanied us on our daily walk, but now even that has dwindled. He feels safe indoors, and in ...
The Chaos

Do not adjust your television set…

Day 264573 of lockdown.  Actually, I am not even sure what day it is to be honest, but I am however, convinced that I have entered the Twilight Zone. Firstly, my eldest who is rarely out of bed by noon, brings me a cup of tea.  IN BED. Without even ...
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