And so, Gin & Lemonade has ticked over to ten years old. To celebrate, I’ve actually started writing a book, and then I dumped coffee on my laptop. Yes, again. Regular readers (are there any from ten years ago? I honestly love you) will know that coffee spills are a regularish thing around here. And that I name my computers. Hemingway met a watery end, replaced by Truman, and then Frank. I’m back to writing on Truman, lumbering and slow.…
And so, I kinda don’t know how we got here, the eve of a new year, new decade, a turned page. My word of the year was ‘shenanigans’, and we lived up to it, although maybe not in the way I set out when I declared the word. I’ll share our recent family road trip, but today I wanted to revisit Gin & Lemonade’s Top 10 Posts of 2019. Some notes: I wrote 45 posts in 2019, and 88 in…
Last week, Isla and I went to pick out our Christmas tree and sat in the car while my Dad played Clark Griswold and he and Anne fought over knots tying their tree and our tree to the roof. Over this one, over here, clap your hands, make a wish. Apparently, it is a military exercise, and it does have to be that complicated. I insisted on a fat tree, which I got. But it might be too big for…
Happy Friday, groovy people! I promised you a blog party when I reached 6,000 readers here at Gin & Lemonade. And so, overnight I seem to have ticked over to 6,003. Thank you! That means we party! Please leave a link to your blog and fave social media hangout in the comments so we can mix and mingle. Introduce yourself, talk to each other and check out other people’s blogs. You might find your new best blog friend! Before you…
