A minor technological fail, a few other real-life distractions and do you know what? It's suddenly 3 weeks since I last blogged. I have been doing a bit of this and that, but not really enough of anything, it feels.
Despite running along seafronts and through exciting gates, it feels like my running is on a bit of a back burner at the moment. I really want this to change so I'm trying to schedule runs with friends to make myself feel obliged to go out - fingers crossed it works.
Crafting is currently all about crochet - I'm on a desperate mission to finish
the enormous blanket by next Friday. I think it can be done if I focus really really hard ... I'm on the border (the swatch in the photo) and it's looking ok but taking ages to do each round now the blanket's so big. And there are STILL about 50 ends to sew in - booo
Reading is happening (a bit) ... The Goldfinch was such an epic read that I had to take a little breather for a while, but I'm just finishing off
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, which is absolutely lovely (I will blog about it properly when I've finished reading it).
Cooking is actually something I've been doing a bit more of. I was very inspired by
Angel Jem to do some proper meal planning and make more use of recipe books, and it's been going ok. Despite the photographic evidence, we've been surviving on more than luridly pink marshmallow cakes, but this was a recipe I made with my youngest who thoroughly enjoys both the process and outcome of cooking. I will try and share some of the meals that have been popular in my house as I always find food inspiration very helpful (and meal planning quite laborious). Recently I've cooked a few dishes from Nigella Express :
Croque Monsieur Bake,
Rapid Ragu and Quick Chilli (not on the website) have all been surprisingly successful in our house.
So - I'm not sure what exactly led to my blogging hiatus - I think it's just very hard to get started again after losing the momentum. But I'm going to really try and keep going this time - off to check comments and have a good catch up with some of my favourite blogs now to keep me inspired.