Blog of Susannah Quinsee about life, work, parenthood and play
Second week of Lockdown. Keeping up with Lockdown poems a day, although ended up late with a couple. Must remember this is not a TASK but something enjoyable! Been lovely actually discovering poems I had forgotten about and remembering why Continue reading Weekly round-up: 16th November
This was the week that England went into Lockdown II: The Return, as I am lovingly call it. It started on Thursday - no Guy Fawkes parties around here, although plenty of fireworks. To be honest, thus far it does Continue reading Monday round-up: 9th November
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
September…. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, well Autumn at least, and excitingly in 2020 the Grand Return to School after 24 weeks at home. When Mike came to me in my office in early May and said it was Continue reading The Grand Return
Oh dear, I have got a bit behind on the “regular” blog posting since returning back from holiday. The “upholder” tendency wants to go back and add in all those missed weeks, but I actually think that is holding me Continue reading Holiday
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