A journal in progress
Ordinary days, written down.
Two small children, one draughty house, and the parts of the week worth keeping. Written slowly, mostly at the kitchen table.
Written by Elin Marsh since 2019
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The front room, 7.42am
What to expect from our website & blog
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entries since 2019, most of them short
Nothing here is sponsored and nothing is a system. It is one family writing down the weekday hours before they go, twenty minutes at a time.
Out of doors
Walks that were meant to be short, and the long argument about whether it counts as a hike if nobody wanted to go.
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What actually gets eaten
The suppers that get made on repeat, the recipes my mother posts in the mail, and honest notes on what the children pushed to the side of the plate.
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Slow trips
One bag, low expectations, and somewhere within a tank of fuel. The trips are small and the write-ups are honest about the parts that went wrong.
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It all happens at
the kitchen table
Lessons in the morning, potatoes in the afternoon, letters to grandparents when it rains. Most of what ends up on this blog started at the same scrubbed table, and the entries read like it.
Days out, kept small on purpose
We stopped planning grand outings the year the youngest learned to say no. Now it is one flask, one field or one stretch of coast, and home before anyone is properly cross. Those days fill more of the archive than anything else.
“I came for the homeschooling notes and stayed for the Tuesdays. It is the only blog I still read slowly, the way you read a letter.”
Jane Smith
Reader since 2021
The Sunday letter
One short email at the end of each week. What got written, what got eaten, and a photograph that did not make it onto the blog.
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Six years of ordinary days, sorted by season. Start anywhere; the entries are short and nothing needs to be read in order.
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Tragödien auf See: Der Untergang der Bayesian 2024
Die Luxus-Segelyacht Bayesian gehörte dem britischen Tech-Unternehmer Mike Lynch (offiziell seiner Frau aus Gründen). Lynch hatte einen wichtigen Prozess gewonnen und wollte dies mit Familie, Freunden und Partnern auf seiner Yacht feiern. Die Bayesian kreuzte deshalb im Mittelmeer. In der Nacht zum 19. August 2024 lag sie vor einem kleinen…
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Tragödien auf See – Robert Byron
Das Buch „Road to Oxiana“ von Robert Byron gilt als Bibel der Reiseliteratur. Der Reisebericht von 1937 über Persien (Iran) und Afghanistan ist heute noch empfehlenswert, weil er Gegenden beschreibt, von denen fast nichts im Lonley Planet steht. Byrons sprachgewaltiges Kunstinteresse erleichterte mir vor einigen Jahren nicht die Lektüre (es…
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Superyachten – und warum ich über sie schreibe
2015, auf dem Rückweg von einem Urlaub mit Lothar, fiel mir ein merkwürdiges Schiff auf. Die Nautilus von Käpt’n Nemo? Ich zoomte näher. Wie aufregend – was würde der Tag noch bringen?