The British Homemaker - One day at a time

Hello! I have my ponderings back this week, things that hang out in my mind and I lazily let them stroll and lay out... How many of these do we pass on Facebook? How many do we share, agree with and even see them for what they sometimes are, defensive and/or put down comments? They reveal so much more if us than we think, and sometimes it's not a good or fullness revelation either! With just a few words we can give totally the wrong impression of something, just like too much information can be overkill. I learn a lot about people by what they post on Facebook and Google+ and for the most part it's good, real and heart warming. I'm continually defining how I want to view my facebook, (Google is more where i interact more generically and i find a more accepting and interactive platform than facebook) what I read and what I share has to be in sync with the friends I read about, at least in some way it other. Now and again I find something that is a momentary comm...

We are loving being in the garden for the most part of the day and evening at the moment, this heatwave has recharged our batteries as if we were solar powered! Charley isn't keen on playing out at the moment but I don't want him stuck on the Xbox 360 or Minecraft day in day out so I've been thinking up enticing things to break up his time {I have the summer holiday to fill up yet so serious brain storming needs to happen soon} anyway, this is what we've been up to together. 1. We needed a pool. Yes, needed! Not a small one but one that would fit the small garden we have, Morrisons to the rescue there :) By the time we measured, compared sizes/shapes we opted for this one, best £20 ever. 2. Then came a sleepover, tucking poor Jake up on bed seemed to amuse them more than the Xbox or play station they went up to play on!! 3. I love spray paint. Nothing is sacred here and as I'm beginning to work through some decorating I'm also changing colours in most the rooms...

The weather has been heart stoppingly scorching this last week or so, at times I've felt like I was going to melt like a snowman in front of a flame fire but I've also loved it too. Long may it last!! :) Having done some random adjustments in the garden it means that I now spend my evenings sat outside, sometimes alone and sometimes with friends, either is fine with me, it's so nice to be able to do that. Coming to terms with a life changing condition means my emotions are up and down, I can cry for no reason and laugh in the next breath. It's very unnerving to feel like I'm going crazy and isolated at the sane time. My journal is filling up a little quicker than usual, the adversary hasn't finished with me yet and I'm not sure how much more I can handle. However, I have to keep going. I sat and drank a whole glass of wine a few nights ago. Very unlike me as I have up drinking a long time ago (though I did have the odd sip here and there a while ago) and alt...