All mod cons!

We've been in the new house now just over a week, and I absolutely love it! We're moving all our furniture and stuff over gradually (we were renting the other place, and budgeted for an extra month, so we wouldn't have to move all in one day (how do people do that?)!) The dishwasher is …

New Cycle, New Year

The Jewish year ends and begins again with the festival of Simchat Torah - rejoicing in the Torah, which took place at the beginning of the week. I didn't manage to get round to posting anything for the High Holidays of Rosh haShanah, Yom Kippur or Sukkot, as we were moving house. But a new …

A New Chapter

Star date: 68812.441019787 We moved into a new home at the weekend, to fairer pastures hopefully. The house needs work, and there's unexpected issues with the electricity but it's a lovely big space and I'm really looking forward to getting settled here. As you can see, we only have a small garden - nothing like the …

Karma

Just a quick note to let you know we have moved (or rather are in the process of moving, since we haven't let the old place go yet, to make moving gradually possible - not the way 'normal' people move, I know, but it seems to be the way we do it!) We have no …

Counting Blessings

Hi folks. I'm taking some time out at the moment to care for my elderly mother who, in addition to suffering from bipolar disorder, is beginning to show increasing signs of dementia. it is a bit of a challenge to determine where the bipolar ends and dementia might begin, because my mum has always been …

If Wishes Were Horses…

Summary "Station residents suddenly find their imaginations are manifested in physical form; a spatial rift threatens to destroy the Bajoran system." Comments I'm really quite ashamed that this post has taken me, what, 4 months to publish?! I don't know why, but every time I looked at it, I felt stumped, and I procrastinated (along …

Aversion Therapy

I wrote this post once already, but the evil internet ate it up and it disappeared without a trace, so instead of the beautifully crafted original post, you'll have to make do with what I can cobble back together from my memory. A few weeks ago, my mother and brother came to visit us from …