Category: Staying at home
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Too many books – again
Some books take on a new life and are no longer just books. They become Symbolic Representation. This means that a strategy of ‘One Book In, One Book Out’ is not possible in my home, because trashing a symbolic book is akin to trashing whatever it now represents. Some books are just too special. Although,…
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Bifurcated bedding – a weekend project
Right now, I’m supposed to be clearing the table so that I can cut a doona in half. It’s too big to fit in my washing machine, and I’m sick of washing it in the bathtub. Too much effort. The plan is to then sew on some buttons or ties (or safety pins, if it…
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Summer’s breath
The delayed onset was appreciated but inevitably … and suddenly … the weather report was predicting heatwaves. I had a mandatory two-week vacation, starting at Christmas and rolling into the beginning of January. My plans for the Closedown were melting away. In the first few years after moving back to the Central West, I found…
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$8 worth of music
Once again, I’m trying to get stuff organised. This time, it’s my music. These things that were once so easy are now so very complicated. I remember clearly the first LP I purchased with my own money. Perhaps I was about 12, or 13, when I asked Mum if I could take my $8 out…
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Elemental
I couldn’t make a mini jigsaw this time, but I love the reason why. I’d bought three wildly-different jigsaws, because you had to buy three to get the discount and why buy three that are similar. I did that once and learnt my lesson the boring way. The first to be tackled in this set…
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Dear Diary
The summer slumber has passed, a couple of months ago now, but projects are stuck in neutral. Work continues it’s dominating influence, and the winter rains have settled in. Excuse me – the new washing machine has just finished attending to the cleaning cloths. The new machine is a larger size so as to better…
Cherrie Zell 