So here we are. A new year, a new outlook on life. Mine is courtesy of the two week old screaming in the next room. I'm now a dab hand at changing nappies and ghosting through life with bloodshot eyes. Going back to work next Monday will be fun. Blogging, writing fiction and such luxuries may be infrequent this year. But hey, I have a daughter. Life is good.
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This is where it all happens, part V
The new arrival has neccisitated a reshuffle at the Cliff household. My brother moved out of the third bedroom a couple of months ago. Now I've moved my office into his old room and my old office is now the baby's room (for some reason I feel like stabbing people who call it a nursery, not sure why).
So this is what my writing space looks like these days...
I don't have the same view of the hills (and the seagulls going to and from the dump), but the deck's just there. On sunny, calm days I can pretend I'm writing al fresco.
As an added bonus, there's a fridge in the wardrobe which wasn't stocked when I took this photo but I can assure you it is now!
Nice surprises
We moved into this house in March 2012 and I only discovered that the pohutukawa above our place was a yellow one on 22 December.
It just so happened I was carrying my daughter inside for the first time, so it was rather auspicious.
A couple of days later I noticed the first head on our artichoke.
2012 was a fruitful year. One human baby delivered, one book baby handed to an editor, one house bought, one promotion and the promise of stuffed artichoke in a week or two.
Next steps
Tomorrow I'll post my annual Best Books I Read Last Year post. There's actually four books published in 2012 on the list, and two from 2011, so it's a bit more current than some other year's top tens.
Until tomorrow, you can read my lists for 2011, 2010 and 2008.
And the day after tomorrow I'll post a similar list for music. It'll be the first time I've done this, which says something for my consumption of new (to me) music, compared to the iTunes funk I'd gotten into in recent years. Mostly thanks to Spotify.
Till then, here's a picture of a windmill at Makara, looking north to Mana Island.
It just so happened I was carrying my daughter inside for the first time, so it was rather auspicious.
A couple of days later I noticed the first head on our artichoke.
2012 was a fruitful year. One human baby delivered, one book baby handed to an editor, one house bought, one promotion and the promise of stuffed artichoke in a week or two.
Next steps
Tomorrow I'll post my annual Best Books I Read Last Year post. There's actually four books published in 2012 on the list, and two from 2011, so it's a bit more current than some other year's top tens.
Until tomorrow, you can read my lists for 2011, 2010 and 2008.
And the day after tomorrow I'll post a similar list for music. It'll be the first time I've done this, which says something for my consumption of new (to me) music, compared to the iTunes funk I'd gotten into in recent years. Mostly thanks to Spotify.
Till then, here's a picture of a windmill at Makara, looking north to Mana Island.
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Thanks for sharing this inspiring write-up to the readers. This goes to say that beautiful things happen every day and even in the coming days.
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