It will surprise no one that my mouth sometimes gets me into trouble. For instance, I kneeled on a chair as a kid, held on to the back, and SANG. One day I ended my routine by tipping the chair, and my teeth ended up going through my lip. I moved my act to singing with a hairbrush while W-sitting on the kitchen floor. Star Search never called me to sing on the show. Fast forward a few years, a…
I should start by saying I wanted to open with a title to create suspense, but Neil said if I put ‘announcement’ in there it would sound like something else. And nothing doing. Which is unfair on many levels. So the title does what it says: We’re moving back to Edinburgh! Regular readers will know that we moved from Edinburgh to the country four years ago. My postnatal anxiety was still a thing, and I honestly thought the fresh air…
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…
I’ve read 339 books (so far) this decade. While figuring out my favorite books of the past ten years, I counted them all. This has been some ten years, in books and life. Books are life. And truthfully, I’ve been working on this post for a while. This has been the House of Germs recently, with Isla’s Christmas play, and that time she decorated Neil with tinsel. He wasn’t even asleep. However. Back to the books. My favorites from the…
Sometimes I ask you guys what you’d like to read more about around here. And sometimes you tell me. A frequent request is more about my every day life as a wheelchair-user. Hi. I can do that. And so, during my recent assessment for a new wheelchair I figured out that I’ve had my current chair for going on 14 years. I thought it was 16, but we all know Math isn’t my thing. Anyway, that’s a long time. Too…
