Getting and staying organised, at home and everywhere else
You’ve heard of extroverts and introverts. Enter the idea of being an otrovert…
When people ask me what my star sign is, and I say Aries, I also always say: ”You do know that this is not a thing?”
The idea that the position of distant stars on the day I was born can somehow make me similar to other people born under those same stars is just magical thinking.
Continue reading “From fugitive to honest outsider”I’ve been doing some reflecting on how I use my time.
First, I started thinking about why I seem to have so little time to spend on “my own things” (mostly hobbies – sewing, gardening and the like – but also reading, thinking and writing). I sat down and said: right, there are 168 hours in a week, and then did the maths on how many hours are spent sleeping, working, doing chores, shopping, spending time with other people. I found that it seemed that there were 30 disposable hours left over after doing all that.
Continue reading “Adventure journal entry 13 – April 26, 2024”
This year, the plan is to expand our vegetable garden.
There are plans for two raised beds, in spots that catch the sun.
In the meanwhile, my early spring collection of seedlings has turned the kitchen table into a nursery.
For Christmas in 2016, I asked for a Fitbit. I was given a Fitbit Flex, one of the least fancy versions of the range.
But it does its job well – I use it principally to try to encourage myself to do more steps every day, and it gives me the data I need to try to meet that goal.
But this is not about the little Flex “pebble” which does the measuring – it’s about the poxy plastic wristband that came with it. Continue reading “The satisfaction of making a plan”
I have started work in the early morning for many years now – and one of the challenges for early shift workers is what to do about breakfast.
Actual breakfast has to be eaten at your desk, and can be done quickly and healthily if you pack the food the night before. But if you are up at 5am, and won’t have a breather to make that breakfast much before 8am, there’s a long stretch of time in which to get hungrier and hungrier, and crabbier and crabbier. What’s needed is a small, nutritious snack that can be eaten on the way to work.
Enter the oatcake.
Oatcakes are widely recommended as a power snack – but the commercially available oatcakes in South Africa always seem to have sugar in them. A hunt on the Internet eventually turned up the perfect solution – a very plain oatcake recipe from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Continue reading “Oatcakes, the perfect early morning snack – recipe”
