The Perils of Multi-tasking
May 29th, 2009 § 11 Comments
I’ve been playing with ink to create seaweed. I’m quite chuffed with the way it dried so glossy in places that it still looks wet and very much like the real thing… Is that the time? Better get dinner sorted, quick sticks!!…
Mmm, lentils and rice from my favourite cookbook, ‘Apples For Jam’. Tessa’s kids eat it so mine will too, right?! Right. OK, back to my creative space post…
Ahhh, Nancy Drew! I have these books out on my desk and love them as much now as I did at ten. I intend to write a post wholely and solely dedicated to Nancy Drew for all her fans… Oh, better check on dinner…
So this is where you imagine that we all sat down to a delicious healthy dinner and chatted about our day and laughed, and laughed… I wish!
I tried to cook biscuits at the same time as dinner,
they burnt and billowed smoke into the kitchen,
the smoke set off the smoke alarm,
the kids went berserk, they HATED the lentils,
the littlest threw hers across the table and onto the floor
and when I picked up the bowl something went click in my back… OWW!
So this post is just one big excuse for my late creative space post and serves as a warning. Multi-tasking is only for the slick, the brave or the foolhardy. So true!
For more creative spaces, visit Kootoyoo. Thanks Kirsty.
Beautiful seaweed picture! Seaweeds one of those transient things I always wish would stay as it is rather than turning into something horrible and dried. You’ve captured its best stage so well.
your photos are almost larger than life.
lentils seem like a brave move – my 3 year old won’t eat pasta, so what hope would i have with lentils?
Fab post! That sort of thing happens to me all the time and will probably happen tonight as I make dinner in a jet-lagged state!
I’m actually relieved to hear your kids won’t eat lentils since I won’t even try to get my kids to eat them. I love them but I don’t think I did until I was in my 20′s. There is still hope for them. I keep hearing great things about that cook book and it is on my wish list. I may have to move it up a bit and ask for it for my birthday.
Hey, lentils rock! One day she’ll discover just how great they are thanks to an early, albeit emotional, introduction.
And you could have ended this post on a lovely illusion… but it’s much more colorful seeing how it all really turned out.
Just hope you’re ‘click’ has been fixed.
thank GOD your kids hated the lentils and you burnt the biscuits! now i won’t feel so inadequate! and it is all about ME, after all
Thanks guys for your lovely comments. I went off to the osteopath and hopefully I’ll be a little less marionette and a little more olympic gymnast by Monday.
x Alisa
It is a great space that tells a great story! It made me laugh. Great photos btw. Love the seaweed.
I hope your back is okay. I loved the Nancy Drew books when I was a kid.
too funny!!!!
i love the apples for jam cookbook too! i’ve not tried lentils – but will do now! hopefully my husband won’t throw them across the table at me…lol…
x nadine
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