Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Did You Miss Me?

Sorry for the long break. Nothing horrible happened to prevent me from posting but thanks for all your concern, I'm really touched. After I came back from London, dad came to stay for a few weeks. I kept telling myself "I'll get back to blogging when things get back to normal", but somehow I didn't. Call it "the blogging blahs", call it getting out of the habit, call it sheer laziness, I don't know what.

I've got a new guitar, the first guitar I have ever bought for myself, so I've been playing a lot. I have been learning to draw and putting my drawings on a "secret" (or at least un-publicised) blog purely so my family far away can see them. But some of you have found it, you crafty things. I'll probably put some drawings on Bean Sprouts when they are relevant to the posts, but this isn't going to turn into an art blog. It will remain about living sustainably and our family's search for the good life. I've been watching old musicals with my 8-year-old daughter, like The King and I, and Calamity Jane. That's been a lot of fun. One of our chickens died from unknown causes. The allotment has been utterly neglected, we're thinking hard about what we want to do with that. Sam turned 7. I'm looking forward to Hallowe'en, Stephanie will come up then and I'm sure we'll hook up with Lindsey too. Life has been going on as it always does.

I already have ideas for the next few blog posts. More about our chickens, about keeping chickens in general, and particularly about pest control. When is an A-rated appliance not an A-rated appliance? And getting started making home-made Christmas gifts, but realistically. It may take me little time to get back into the "post every day, or more" habit. But I'm back now anyway, and it feels good. I missed you guys too!

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

Glad you are back! I look forward to reading your upcoming posts, they sound interesting.
CLM, a reader from Atlanta, GA, USA

Gid said...

Glad to see you back.. so, what's the new guitar?.. spill the beans.. I appear to have taken up the mandolin which is fun.. one of the side effects of this is that I can now strum the violin.. :-)

Anonymous said...

Welcome back, Mel. Of course we missed you! Other places you usually frequent have had a rather large Mel-shaped hole as well. Still, Skipweasel said he'd not heard owt nasty from you, so I assumed you were just taking a well-earned break.
Good to have you back :)

Fran

Anonymous said...

Wow - I'm so glad to see you back, I've kind of got "It rained all the time we were in Ireland" imprinted on my brain, so couldn't quite comprehend a new post for a while!

Love to all the kids, and you & Ed too.

Deb xxx

Anonymous said...

So glad your back. Looking forward to your new posts.
Debbie

Anonymous said...

Good to see you back. Yes I've missed you ...

The big question is how's the kitten doing?

I'm curious about the A rated appliances, having just had the kitchen re-done we made sure the fridge, oven and dishwasher were A rated. Now you have me worried.

Em

Ted Marshall said...

Great to see you back, and you've got me really curious now about your drawing blog.

Lesley said...

Welcome back!
Glad it was only 'Blogger's Block' and not something dreadful

Anonymous said...

good to see you are back again!

jane said...

So glad to see you back unharmed!
I'll be interested in your A rated appliances as I need to replace my dangerous gas cooker pretty soon!

Blicky Kitty said...

YAY! I'm so happy you're back.

Gordon Mason said...

Welcome back. A lot of people were fretting.

GreenOfficeBlog said...

I didn't have a chance to miss you because this is my first time reading your blog. But I have to say it's quite entertaining! What are some of your thoughts on pest control? I've always thought that the only way to get rid of buggers is to use chemicals, but I suppose that isn't a very green approach. Suggestions would be appreciated!

just Gai said...

Of course we did.
Glad to have you back and even more so now that we know that you and yours are all well. You hd us worried!

Anonymous said...

Glad to see you back..Looking forward to your new posts.
Meet me at
http://gwb-chinese.blogspot.com/
Waiting with curiosity. To know your innovation.

Anonymous said...

Yes we did!

It was starting to get a wee bit spammy around here, in the comments...

Glad to hear you've been happily up to creative pursuits while absent from blogland. Drawing, and a new guitar, exciting stuff! I feel your joy, as during the same period i treated myself to a much-longed-for tenor ukulele, which makes lovely noises.

welcome back to the blogsphere :D

eleanor

Anonymous said...

Hurrah! You're back! I kept wondering whether the LJ feed had broken or something, and coming here to check, and discovering that it hadn't... I would have been a bit miffed had you disappeared permanently only a month after I'd found your blog in the first place. ;-)

Almost Mrs Average said...

Hooray Mel - ams so glad to see you back. I discovered your lovely drawings the other day over at Chickpea. You're great there, but I have missed you here ;-D x

Anonymous said...

So glad to see you back & that nothing untoward had happened.

Have you come across diatomaceous earth as a pest control? Wildside mentioned it on her blog & my animal pharmacist here let me start off a search on their computer, so I know that there's no source for it in Ireland, but there is a company in the UK that does it.

iwishiwas said...

Hi Mel, good to see you are back, my little surfing routine is back to normal now! You deserve a bit of a break every so often. Bit like me and my books, I know I will love reading every one in that pile by the bed, but somehow I can't seem to make a start on them.

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