Wound up tight

This has been an interesting week, the pressure has been on from several fronts and I’m having to take some very deep breaths and try to see the lighter side of it all. The extra work from Melissa is becoming taxing, particularly since there have been speed issues on the network (upgrades in progress) and […]

Tight timeframe

I’m working one and a half days on the phones for Melissa these days, and handling the email enquiries that come in over weekends and Mondays. Combined with the two days a week I’m working for the Hospice it is keeping me busy. There is enough variety and contrast with the work to keep it […]

Saying “thanks”

Luke 17:11-19 Of the ten who are healed, one, a Samaritan (and therefore a despised ‘outsider’ to the Jewish community) returns to Jesus praising God in a loud voice. We are challenged not only to acknowledge the healing power of God in our lives, but to recognise God’s blessings in unexpected people and situations. Jesus […]

Drawspace B01 – Positive and negative spaces

While I have been getting distracted lately by work and a uni assignment, Jo has powered ahead nearly ten lessons in front of me and is up to actual drawing exercises! Oneday when I eventually catch up, we will have to scan some of our drawings to put up on our blogs. This set of […]

Happy 2nd birthday

It’s my blog’s second birthday today! Forget about the past, you can’t change it. Forget about the future, you can’t predict it. Forget about the present, I didn’t get you one.

A personality test

I was checking out this Luminosita blog on LiveJournal (out of curiousity, since I used the same name for my own blog on Blogger). There I discovered a link to this personality test. According to the test, I am an idealist. I never thought of myself as that but a lot of the description rings […]