I’ve spent most of the weekend in Starwars yoga pants and a green Team Awesome t-shirt. Popcorn was consumed in vast quantities. Last weekend we set Isla up in a ‘big kid bed’ which matches ‘big kid school’. This is a good thing. Bed time stories happen in her room now. She falls asleep in her room now. I miss her. But we don’t have to share the popcorn any more and TV habits have changed from Postman Pat to…
Reading: Turning Angel, Greg Iles. Does anyone else read the Penn Cage books? The Passenger, Lisa Lutz. Thrillers are my brain-candy. Again. And my second #LitsyGoesPostal book. LGP is a postal bookclub/journaling project/generally good thing made up of people that first connected on the Litsy app. The idea is to send your favourite book, a notebook and good vibes to someone who reads it, writes about it and sends it to the next person in the rotation. In a few years,…
Loving: Our new house. Open spaces. Boozy milkshakes (Galliano and ice-cream.) My new MacBook. Reading: American Housewife, Helen Ellis. Campari For Breakfast, Sara Crowe. Watching: Nothing. We have yet to plug in the TV. Today, Dad and I took Isla to the Peanuts movie. Neil and I went to see Deadpool over the weekend. Loved them both. We should be watching season 2 of Better Call Saul. Listening To: Chet Faker. Working on: Longer blog posts. Unpacking. Not becoming a…
Loving: How Isla says ‘Mammy’. And that her new word is ‘cookie’. And that now she says yes as well as no. Homemade hazelnut lattes. Being without my mobile phone. Reading: City On Fire, Garth Risk Halberg. My initial love for this book has cooled. But I understand that good books are like life, and cannot be interesting all the time. Cuckoo’s Calling, JK Rowling. Kind of over-written, but somehow moreish. Watching: Recently finished Making A Murderer. I think Mr…
