This year we have signed up as a family and as a youth club (opps haven’t told them yet!). I thought we were quite “good” with our plastic use so felt this year we were ready to sign up. I have decided to document some of the thought process and what we do in case […]
“…like the sun waking to cast rays of colour into a new day.”
The full quote is “Let God hold your heart, like the moon rising to meet the starts at night and the sun waking to cast rays of colour into a new day.” Its from Bonnie Grays, Whispers of Rest. I have just started reading it and it makes me feel like I can breathe. (P.S. […]
Cloud of Unknowing
This is what I wrote on instagram a week ago “Morning, it is so beautiful out here today, a bit nippy but the buds are forming on the trees and the lichen making interesting shapes on the trees branches. The main sounds are a woodpecker and wood pigeons cooing and flapping. A cormorant swims and […]
Good Friday or is it Bad Friday
It’s Friday, Good Friday by name although, as the school children at the Easter Experience commented it’s pretty much Bad Friday because Jesus died. He was spat on beaten and humiliated. This fit healthy 33 year old man did not have the strength to carry the cross to the hill, someone stepped in for him. […]
Its Slime Time – UK Style
We have spent a lot of time trying to make slime with no success and finally found a recipe which works. We have made several batches at youth club and now Abi has gone into slime production, so if you don’t want to make your own, she will do it for you for £1. Heres […]
You are Loved
Morning, You are Loved. Whether today is a celebration for you or not. If you doubt it look at the world around you. The vast amazing sky which changes like a Turner painted for you each day, minute and second. Whether you are in the country or the city, just look up, wether its vast […]
World Book Day – Lucy the Valiant and a plan of action for a speedy simple-ish costume.
In typical brown family fashion the costume ideas changed on a daily basis from Secret Princesses, to the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. My tactic is to wrack my brain for what we have that can be used, I would rather spend our time creating something that can be taken apart and re used […]
Motherhood
I’ve just read the The Sixty Minute Mother by Rob and Dianne Parsons. It’s a book, it seems I’ve been aware of for ever, since before I was ever a mother. I thought it fell into the category of books promising to change your whole life by 5 minutes here or there, or parenting books […]
How to Make Glitter Mermaid and Unicorn Key tags
I recently made some key tags for a couple of special girls birthdays. I’ve written a more concise how to at the bottom if you want to skip my waffle ;). True to many girls at the moment they love unicorns and mermaids. I had bought some cutters from lakeland for my daughters birthday cake, […]
Produce Bags
I’ve been meaning to make some of these for ages and when my bother said he’d like some at Christmas, it spurred me into action. They are made from industrial scraps of mesh fabric, produced when a local factory made eco nets for environmental use and research, these are the bits which aren’t big enough […]