Blog of Susannah Quinsee about life, work, parenthood and play
Today is the Spring Equinox where night and day are equal length. I’ve just done a yoga workshop (online of course!) run by East of Eden and Hermione Armitage which was wonderful and made me feel full of Spring energy. Continue reading Grey by Edwin Morgan
Bit of self-indulgence this week as I meant to post this earlier and forgot as I was feeling a bit under the weather. Back in January, I did the 64 Million Artists Creative Challenge and one day was tasked to Continue reading My lockdown 3 poem
I’ve not done very well In January doing a weekly round-up. And I was going to back track then I just thought I would do all of January in one go! To be honest, this month has felt hard. I’m Continue reading January round-up
I’ve changed the title of this post about four times to try to reflect my thinking! Needless to say, I’ve been thinking a lot about this since March 2020, which is unsurprising really given my professional role and also because Continue reading School, well, education is not just formal learning
I’ve decided to group these two weeks together because frankly not much happened for two weeks whilst we were off and in tier 4. Ok that is a slight exaggeration and rather downbeat, let me rephrase as a list, this Continue reading Weekly round-up: 28th December/4th Jan
Well, we managed to get to 11th December with everyone in school but alas our luck ran out as Isaac and Mariela were then sent home to self-isolate on 14th December. So that was 3 kids at home remote schooling. Continue reading Weekly round-up: 21st December
Oh dear, I am 3 weeks behind but have decided just to post these for completeness! And to try harder in 2021. So finally self isolation hit us this week. On Friday eldest daughter was sent home from secondary school Continue reading Weekly round-up: 14th December
Lockdown II: The Return (as I am calling it although I notice that all the cool kids call it Lockdown 2.0, oh well), coincided almost with the beginning of November and I had two biggest projects or shall we say Continue reading Reflections on November: writing target and poems
A bit late this one due to various things, work mainly. Its been one of those deceptive weeks where you think that you have time then discover that some things take a lot longer than you had anticipated. Such is Continue reading Weekly round-up: 30th November
The end of Lockdown: The Return is nearly over! I was caught unawares as I had thought it rumbled on for a few more days. Not sure how much of a difference it makes personally as we’ve gone back to Continue reading Silver, Walter de la Mare