blanket

Blankets

Of snow
Of leaves
Of mist


Blankets


Of warmth
Of comfort
Of protection

Blankets

All embracing
Complete
Universal

So many meanings,
So many images
For something so


Simple


I love blankets. I make blankets. A blanket makes everything feel better. Maybe that's why JBoy likes clutching a blanket. It makes his world feel better. I can go with that.

cake!

So....later this year Melodymaid and Bassmanbill will be getting married. I have been given the amazing privilege of making the wedding cake. I made one for Bohemianbabe then later another for Medicineman...this was in the days when I had many offspring living at home so cake making was something which happened on a weekly basis. I am no Mary Berry or any other reknowned cake maker but I had developed a chocolate cake that became my signature bake. Since then we have dwindled to a household of three....one of whom cannot eat ordinary cake, one of whom does not eat cake due to her ever expanding waistline (guess which one of the three that is) and the other would eat it but making an entire cake for one man seems somehow bad and wrong. So..I m somewhat out of practice. This has however given me an excuse, should one be needed, to do a flurry of practice runs. The final cake will be a piece of art work and the layer which I have made today will eventually be part of the whole....the final design remains a secret...hee hee...apart from all the people I have told. The above photo is attempt number three of layer number two. This third attempt is neither too dry nor too soggy. I may have done it! However, the wedding is not until May and whilst I COULD freeze the thing, it might not be so nice after several months in the freezer SO we might just have to eat it.......not JBoy obviously.....he might explode if he had this in his digestive system.....oh, what to do, what to do!!!  Clearly I need a cake eating party. Hands up if you are coming........

Best go and wipe the chocolate off my face where I licked the spoon and managed to paint  my face with chocolate

Happy cake Friday

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Good days and bad days

So...there are good days and there are bad days. The thing is to be able to carry on so that JBoy does not notice. He needs us to be the same..always...sometimes that is part of the struggle. His little smiling trusting face expects us to be the same always. He helps keep the Black Dog at bay.....

Sometimes I wonder if he has a black dog of his own. On those days when he is particularly difficult and in transigent. When nothing is right. Is his black dog nipping at his heels????

There is no way of knowing.

We have to be constant

Kicking the Black dog out of the way

Sometimes this is the hardest

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one word

One word
And he comes

Emotions tangle
Thoughts wrangle
Tears spangle

One word
And he comes

Heels nipped
Toes clipped
Smile slipped

One word
And he comes

Shuffling, torn
Resolves worn
Pricking thorn

One word

Would that
One word
Would send him

Slinking away
Muzzled
Disenfranchised
Powerless
Grey

One word
And he comes

The Black Dog

fly

So..today I want to fly away.

.it's that kind of day
I want to soar
And swoop
Watch life beneath
Sit in a tree
Without having to think
Of dinner
 Or washing
Or routine

I want to be lifted
By warmth
And held
In the slipstream

Above the black dog
Barking
Baying
Howling

Laughing in his face




Today is one of those days


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january

So.....awakened at 3.30am by JBoy, I am now sitting, immobile, by a lovely cosy fire, trying to keep my eyes open as said Boy will soon be returning from the Most Marvellous day Centre.  I am sure he has had a splendid day , full of jolly japes and raillerie . I too have had a jolly day...coffee with chums, a spot of necessary shopping in actual shops and then home for a spot of distance shopping in virtual shops.  It is dangerously easy to shop in virtual shops as it doesn't feel like shopping at all...a little click here and another there and the deed is done. It's a bit like the Middle Aisle of Aldi and Lidl...there are so many things I didn't know I needed! I have spent a good few minutes searching for just the right item of clothing...to no avail but I have ordered three other things instead. All ABSOLUTELY necessary, you understand. In these dismal grey days of January, when the skies are grey and heavy, and this particular January when the world watches with breath bated as Trump does his thing in the White House, I have found the internet to be a place where I have found sunshine and sparkly things to gladden the heart of this girl (obviously I use that term loosely). I know there are dark things on the internet and hidden nastiness but I have chosen to seek out the good, the happy and the joyous. Would that we could always do that in actual life too...seek out the good, the happy and the joyous in one another, in the world around, in ourselves. Maybe this is another Not a New Years Resolution coming upon me.
That said, my good, happy and joyous Boy will be home at any minute so I shall bid you farewell.

Do that.

Fare well.

Seek out the good
The happy
The Joyous


Let me know how it goes.

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this is NOT a New Years resolution

So...a New Year is well under way by now.  Little changes in our house....each night, one of is Parent on Duty while the other enjoys the luxury of sleep only to wake and realise that they are PoD for the following night.....JBoy continues to be a delight and a despair at the same time. He continues to surprise and entertain us but also pulls, kicks and generally Boyhandles us on a regular basis. We try to understand his every nuance. We try to anticipate his every move and we try to respond appropriately to every demand.  This year will be an interesting one....Melody Maid will be marrying the Love of her Life, M nd I will be entertaining a birthday number which ends with a 0 , Brexit will mean Brexit and Trump will be the new president of the USA. These are things I know about...who knows what else it will hold....I realise that during 2016 I lost some of the light hearted ness and joy which I felt at the beginning of the year. There is no knowing why exactly but I really want it back. I want to feel a smile brewing just because I see something random or pretty or quirky or ordinary...so although I don't do New Years resolutions as such, my thoughts for 2017 are that I want to enjoy it. In every possible way.
All suggestions as to how to do this,  will be gratefully received 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

Thank you in advance

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