Mrs.B

I took photos of buckets today.

Thankfully not the kind that my poor husband has been using due to his labyrinthitis related nausea :)

He is getting slowly better, by the way, but he still cannot walk further than to the bathroom and back. His new anti-nausea medication means though that he can finally keep food down. Every night we go to bed with a hope that the next day is better than the one ending…

So back to the buckets [...]

Although I can sew and knit and crochet and cross stitch, I am not very crafty these days. A few months ago though I got an idea to make an “artwork” for our living room using Australian postcards. After a bit of toing and froing and false starts, it’s finally finished.

I think it’s not bad for a first attempt. It’s not as neat as I would have liked because the postcards all varied in size by a mm or two, and because by the time I got it back from framers I saw some edges where the glue had come unstuck. [...]

I’ve always wanted a shelf for photos and other pretty stuff above my bed and we’ve finally made it happen.

So far we haven’t really decorated this place much, other than hang photos on the already existing picture hooks, because we will “one day” renovate. I couldn’t stare at the bare walls in our room any longer though and am very pleased with the photo shelves from IKEA.

My mother hates that I’m paying someone to clean my house. But she hates cleaning… and I hate cleaning… so yes, I am paying someone to scrub my bathtub and my stove once a week.

All three adults living in our house do enough tidying, cooking, ironing, laundry, dishwashing and cupboard organising – I don’t see how we could squeeze in all the dusting and mopping and scrubbing as well.

I think my mother doesn’t actually have as much of a problem with the money as she does with the quality of the cleaning. I have to say that I’m glad that someone goes through my house with a mop once a week and I’m not bothered too much when a corner is left untouched. [...]

The boys have moved in together, nana no longer has to share a room with Oskar and sleep in the bunk bed.

On Friday afternoon we said good-bye to the blue skies of Australia and started the marathon journey back to London. The boys did really well and I was even able to watch a movie. No wait, I watched THREE movies.  Unbelievable, really, I can’t remember the last time that happened. Now it’s good to be [...]