The rice and salt years are the years spent focused on child bearing, rearing and household tasks. The years that leave precious little time for personal pursuits. The term is from ancient China when the noble women would put away their literary interests and tend to the demands of their household, their writing relegated to stolen moments.
Yesterday there were no stolen moments.
In the evening we walked in the park. The nice thing about daylight saving is it is light until late on hot summer nights.
We walked past the house with the lovely rustic gate
We didn't go here.
The Golden Globes were on yesterday. When she was alive Sue Mengers called movie stars 'Sparklies' (Vanity Fair, December 2011). I like to think of them as Sparklies enjoying their big night out.
Testing my comments to see if it works (before writing another long one and it going into oblivion again)
ReplyDeleteYay.....I think it worked! After only having to go to four different screens! So.....was thinking......we were talking about FF (sort of, in my comments to your link the other day) and you can now say that....you went to school with someone (me) who has a very close friend (let's call her C), who now lives in Singapore (irrelevant), who....wait for it....grew up next door to FF in Brisbane in the 70s!!!!! Talk about six degrees of separation. You get there in just three steps. I know, Amazing.
ReplyDeleteBut anyway, back to the blog...loving it. So refreshing. And your baby boy is "gggoooorrrggggeeous" (say in high funny voice for full effect). Keep them coming.
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FF sure is popular. Cult blogger in the newspaper! So funny I was mucking around saying, "I luff this and I luff that" to daughter the other day and a few days later she said "I luff it" when talking about something :)
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