Jul 042010
 

Energised and focused

I awoke this morning, and after the clearing the usual fogginess that surrounds getting out of bed on a winters morning, I felt rather calm and enthusiastic about the day. It was like the stagnation that surrounds lots of negative television and heavy food had lifted and I was looking for other things. Continue reading »

Jul 032010
 

Make vegetable soup for dinner

Today, things are different. I feel hungry. Not like a ravenous famished hunger but rather a need for something wholesome to keep me going.

I no longer am missing my esteemed coffee, the lack of a milk drink in the afternoon doesn’t seem so important. But I do feel surprisingly hungry. So hungry in fact that I have gone to the trouble of making vegetable soup.

Making vegetable soup is actually a lot of trouble, mainly because I have to balance the needs of a breastfeeding wife, a two year old toddler, and myself, against the hours of preparation it takes to make a decent sized pot of vegetable soup. My toddler doesn’t understand this yet, but, Continue reading »