Musings - SPIN CYCLE

Spin Cycle Topic - What I did on my summer vacation.

This year I haven't really had a summer holiday, that is I have been at home anyway so it has been hard to distinguish the summer break from the rest of my time, especially here in good old West Yorkshire where the weather doesn't give you a hint either. Shiver, rain, ooh is that a bit of sun, no sorry the street light was just forced to come on early...

Anyway, the reason (as some of you will already know and are thinking jeez enough already) I have been off work is that during the April holiday break I squeezed out a child. I love that term, squeezed out a child, it makes for a great visual. Yes, I was with child and then I was with a whole heap of disruption. This is her, the daughter, the Katharine Lorelai. Say hello to the nice people... oohh cooo eeehh blaaah. She is getting there!

So my summer has been spent inclining up a huge learning curve, I'm loving it but when she can say 'Ma, I'm screaming because I need a pint.' I am sure I will be a little more at ease.

But hey, we are having a wee holiday but not until the end of September so I guess I will just have to wait and see what the Keeper of the Sprite has for us spinners and hope I can weave in some soggy looking but smiley photos of four adults, the dog and the kid hitting the blustery beaches of Angelsey.

I have just realised that I am a little sparce with the full stops today, hope you managed to breathe through my 6574 word sentences, ha ha.

:) xx

Sprite's Keeper 

Musings - SPIN CYCLE

Spin Cycle Topic - Language

Growing up I absorbed information. I loved to learn, still do, but my capacity to retain my teachings is now lacking the vigour of my younger years. I can remember vividly some classes from my early teens yet can not recall what I wore last Tuesday. I guess that age and motherhood are the reasons why I am no longer the geek that I was but I am sure that being easily distracted doesn't help ha ha.

Anyway, language... I studied French for five years and German for three but can speak and read very little. But when I was eleven and due to move from Junior School to High School we got to spend two days at the high school to see what we thought. We got to take part in lessons and have lunch in the cafeteria... it was amazing. I felt so grown up and eager to get there.

Now one of the lessons was French with Mr Smith. He taught us a song in French. Head, shoulders, knees and toes... know it? I can remember every word...

Tête et épaules, genoux, et orteils, genoux et orteils.

Tête et épaules, genoux et orteils, genoux et orteils.

Yeux et oreilles et bouche et nez.

Tête et épaules, genoux et orteils, genoux et orteils.

Five years of french and I can ask for a chocolate ice cream and tell you that I have blue eyes.

But one day, when I was at my learning best, and I can remember a whole song. And twenty years down the line still sing it perfectly.

Okay... maybe not perfectly in tune... :) xx

Musings - SPIN CYCLE

Spin Cycle Topic - BAD HABITS.

I had to really think about this one. I have so many habits that on reflection are a hinderence so I found it hard to talk about only one.

You see... I crack my toes, leave half drunk glasses of drink all over the house (for the record I am not anticipating an alien landing), spend a fortune on books, am blind to the mess, miss out third gear when I am driving, sing in the shower, daydream at inappropriate moments, play with my iPhone when I should be asleep, have a new celebrity crush every week, read all the movie credits, drink Cappuccinos even though I don't like coffee, save photos to my desktop... the list goes on and on.

I am sure if you ask my husband he will give you a whole load of my bad habits that I have failed to think of.

But my worst Bad Habit is that I never finish anything. I have half read books, half written stories, half collected collections, half painted paintings, pots without plants, resultions that are never fulfulled, plans that get abandoned mid-plot and again the list goes on and on.

I am sure if you ask my husband...

I guess I should give you a more specific example? Hmm, right, got one.

Back in April a few days after the birth of Katharine, I decided that I wanted something in the nursery with her name on. As both her first and middle names are both 'difficult' to spell (it would seem) I thought it would be a good idea to get the right spellings as big as possible on her wall. I wanted to do it before Katharine went from the moses basket to her own room. So I bought some letters, and some crafty bits like paper, beeds, butterflies and of course glue, and then did nothing.

That was in April.

In May I finally got around to giving the letters a base coat of 'muddy puddle' emulsion. But that was in May. Katharine moved in to her nursery.

In June I finally got around to decorating the letters with the paper and the beads and the butterflies. But that was in June. Katharine learned how to smile and find her toes.

In July I finally got around to painting the canvas which I intended to stick the letters to. But (are you sensing a pattern) that was in July. Katharine started being fussy with her milk so we started giving her some baby rice.

It's now August and the letters still are not on the nursery wall. I sometimes wonder if they will ever get finished. It would be a shame if they didn't as so far they look lovely...

Don't you agree?

Reading back I have changed my mind, in an effort to make sure I finish them I am scrapping this as my bad habit... No longer do I not finish things... I just take a REALLY long time. :) xx