New Table, New Places
The Messy Table has a new table. Heavy wood with solid legs and an extra leaf hidden away underneath, just waiting for our first expanded […]
The Messy Table has a new table. Heavy wood with solid legs and an extra leaf hidden away underneath, just waiting for our first expanded […]
It’s surely not strange to be up with worry the night before a move. But usually you aren’t worried sick about rodents. We’ve been guinea […]
We were at a wedding yesterday which felt like strange timing. Monday isn’t the predictable choice for nuptials – but we’re just recently arrived back […]
Plum turned two this week. Which puts him right smack dab in the middle of that wonderful one-to-three age range. I love this stage and […]
My Blue’s day started early. He was up with the birds and headed straight out to the garden to look up at the sky. Yesterday, […]
1) The lilies on my table have bloomed. Don’t they looked just like a crowd of faces, all straining and trying their best to get […]
When I was in my last year of high school, I took a writer’s craft course. Which was amazing and enriching, encouraging and all that […]
It’s been a week of work, hope and holding our breath, but tonight it’s official: we’ve found a house. We made it through the application […]
I’m moving to a place where the national dish is melted cheese on toast. How could I not find that perfectly lovely? The Spouse has […]
Midsummer is still a couple of weeks away, but I’m thinking ahead. That’s often how it is when you are worship planning. You need to […]
Beangirl has started cooking. A few weeks ago, we were at the library and she rummaged around the information section, looking for something new. (Yes, […]
This weekend, we went camping by the sea. It was a trip that we had been looking forward to for a long time – ever […]
Tonight, I’d like to just sit and knit. I’m tired out from a whole basket full of church work over the weekend which is now […]
I’m writing this from the public library, a grand 19th century French Renaissance-styled building in the middle of the city. As I walked in, I […]
It’s interesting to live in a city with a zoo. I hadn’t really noticed that until today. It has been a day off school for […]
Spring brings the new stories, the newest newborn church stories. The Mary stories, Thomas stories and Emmaus stories. Stories of turning and knowing. And not […]
I wish you could see him. In the flesh preferably so that you could really see his joy. But a photo would do, too, if […]
“Now on that same day, two of them were going to a village called Emmaus.” Another road story. Another reminder that we are a pilgrim […]
I always worried as a child that it wouldn’t be warm enough to wear socks to church on Easter Sunday and that my mum would […]
She’s been at the market all day Tuesday and much of Wednesday morning, too. So many things were needed for the meal. And she wanted […]