Mud & Mischief

Some days, I’m doing so many things that I forget which way I’m supposed to be facing and find myself sat in a corner, quietly flicking my bottom lip down with one finger going ‘buhbuhbuhbuhbuh’…

There’s been lots of Ecoknits stuff going on the last week or so, meetings with North Doncaster Development Trust, and the Chamber of Commerce, and meetings booked with CIDA and courses with the Inland Revenue and Chamber pencilled in on the calendar. I’ve applied for a startup grant, to go towards postage supplies, business cards, storage boxes for yarn and such like. I’ve written a business plan, filled in an application for a business bank account (24 page print out!), helped James photograph some gorgeous stuff from the Natural Dye Studio and Artist’s Palette Yarns (so there’ll be new pictures up there in a few days), edited a couple of pages on the website and started a claim for the first missing parcel.

The kids are back at school, bleargh, so there’s school run every morning, lunches to make (although I’m getting better at those and doing the sandwiches the night before when I can), clothes to wash/dry/wrestle small children into, hair to brush and de-bug (already!!!), swimming kit to find, homework to marshal…

And food. The bane of my life. I used to so love cooking. Nowadays, it’s in danger of turning into a slog, as anything decent I cook gets frowned at and “I don’t like this, Mommy”. However, I’ve made out a couple of weeks worth of menus, I’ve managed to shop to those menus, and any faces pulled at dinner are smartly reminded that whilst it may not be their favourite dinner, it’s mine/Daddy’s/Myf’s and we’ll be eating something you like tomorrow that Piglet might not like but will eat because her favourite is being served on Sat. That, and there’s nothing else bar a piece of fruit if you don’t eat it. And apple pie and custard for those who do eat their veg. So, lately I’ve made corned beef & potato pies (froze one as an experiment) a chicken & veg pie (from Sunday dinner leftovers), I have approx 36 Bramley apples to peel, dice, cook down and freeze for pie fillings & apple sauce, we’ve had real food that the kids have actually eaten and I feel so much better about this whole cooking lark. I may even dig out a couple of cookbooks and try some new things on the guinea pigs, uh, family.

What was the purpose of this blog?

Ah, yes. Too much to do.

So, I’m sat here, tapping away and thinking about all the things I want/need to do with these few precious hours of calm (ish - there is a labrador pup in the house after all) and so far this evening, I want to:

There are probably more, but we bought some Spendrups Swedish beer from Ikea yesterday and I kind of forgot what it was that I wanted to do. But I reckon the above is enough of a list to keep me going.