Blog of Susannah Quinsee about life, work, parenthood and play
Fridays. Ah Friday! The end of the week. The promise of the weekend beckons. Yay. These are all good things. Fridays should be days of celebration. Or at least a feeling that you close the week on a positive note. Continue reading November 12th
I went down a bit of an internet rabbit hole trying to choose today’s poem. I remembered I had read a beautiful poem many years ago at a friend’s wedding but I cannot remember which one it was. Cue, endless Continue reading Love Without Hope, Robert Graves
I’m late with Friday’s poem. I was trying to find a suitable poem by Vicki Feaver but couldn’t find any of her earlier work online but in the end went for this one. The reason for this was that I Continue reading The Way We Live
Decided that doing a Friday round-up is confusing me as I keep missing out weekends and given that I seem now to always blog on a Monday that actually doing a Monday round-up would be much better, so that is Continue reading Monday round-up: 26th October
The week started with Mike’s birthday which ended up not quite being the celebration we had hoped due to a rather unfortunate blockage in our drains. Suffice to say that although we hadn’t planned much for Mike’s actual day, dealing Continue reading Friday round-up: 16th October
Getting into the school-working at home routine now which is good if not intense! Reminded again about how much you can achieve with a concentrated block of time at your desk during the day. I got around to restarting my Continue reading Friday round-up: 9th October
I haven’t done one of these since August and am trying to resist the feeling of doing them ALL since then. As this is rather futile. Maybe I will go back and do a few but…. This week was the Continue reading Friday round-up: 2nd October
Sudden panic set in when I realised that we were definitely more than half way through the holiday and I had had all these good plans and what had happened! Take a breath! After months of not really doing very Continue reading Friday round up: 21st August
Back to work this week – now I miss holiday! And it did feel rather tough this week, mainly because of the amazing heat. 6 days or so of temperatures over 30 degrees is pretty unusual in London and did Continue reading Friday round-up: 14th August
Got a bit behind on blogging and being an upholder type (I think, not that I have read on the book, it is on the list), I feel the need to go back and create blogs for these “missing weeks” Continue reading Friday round-up: 31st July