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Date: 17 September 2007 21:06:27
I should be downstairs making a bag, but having just noticed that someone's facebook status is "... is waiting for birdie to update her blog" I feel I ought to write something.
Second day at nursery last week went well. I explained that I would be leaving halfway through and when the time came, I told him I was going and kissed him goodbye. He glanced up briefly from his play-dough and said 'bye!' and off I went. He was absolutely fine. We're back tomorrow and I'm planning to stay just for about 20 minutes and after that he's on his own! I was wondering if he'd look at me as if to say 'no mum, we've done this, I'm not going again' but actually I've made sure to talk to him about it during the week and I think he's probably quite looking forward to it. Oh, and he spoke his first word of Welsh on saturday ('dwr', if anyone's interested).
Food Festival at the weekend. Our local food festival is often described as 'the glastonbury of food festivals' but I'm never sure if that's by disinterested observers or festival marketing people so I can't say if people really think that! Did some good shopping, a lot of good meat which should keep us going for a while. (Have discovered that if you're in the main market hall at about 4.30-5 when it all closes you can get lovely organic meat very cheaply indeed.) And also quite a bit of alcohol of various varieties.
I had a long car journey today (staff training in Llandysul of all places), and therefore uninterrupted thinking time, and realised on the way back that I have become obsessed with food of late. Where it comes from, how it's grown, how we make choices about what we eat. Mainly about how we tend to be totally disconnected from the process - not knowing what's actually in season because it's all there on the shelves all the time - that kind of thing. I have no deep thoughts or conclusions to share on this matter - just saying it's a bit of a theme at the moment so don't be surprised if it crops up again.
On the same theme, it was Harvest Festival at the church where I take Groover for toddler service on a Thursday this weekend. If I hadn't been on various rotas at our church I'd have gone. We don't do any sort of harvest festival at our church - are we alone in this or are they becoming less common? It does strike me that even if our community is becoming less agricultural and thus less aware of this time of year as harvest time, surely there's a place for taking some time to thank God for our food? (Corporately I mean, rather than just grace before meals!) I'm thinking of taking over a homegroup evening soon to do just that. And maybe do some stuff on fair trade at the same time... that might be good... hmm.
Again on the same theme, can I recommend 'Animal, Vegetable, Miracle' by Barbara Kingsolver? Absolutely fascinating account of one family's year of eating only local food. It's beautifully written as you'd expect by her, very funny in places and also full of useful information. And now I've read it I want to try making cheese. (Mr b rolled his eyes a LOT when I said that...)
That's your lot for now, I'm tired and I think there's an unfinished bottle of (local) wine downstairs.....