Be a parsnip

 Back to last year, when I was signed off on sick due to burnout (or perimenopause depending if your my GP or my Occupational Health therapist), I did not much for a week. And as part of the not much, I decided to not drink my usual coffee.  I didn't start to drink coffee until my late teens, trying to remember when but I think it was after being in Italy as a 17 year old with school. Coffee was the chic thing then in the 90s in Italy and being the eldest on the school trip we were allowed some freedom, I remember drinking coffee and cocktails (maybe we werent allowed to do the second thing but am sure we did!). So for 30 years I have drunk coffee, always black (like the way my dad drinks it not my soul) and never with sugar. And now I drink decaff coffee and tea. My teas are mostly herbal and I have got a random selection of favourites. Raspberry and lemon - its very pink and just luscious, and if I don't drink it when its warm its fab cooled down too Another fruity Twinings ...

  I know its a Tuesday - my brain was busy yesterday as I tidied my room!  Anyway I've written this during my lunch break and Carys hasn't Okayed it so it may change Tuesday - Carbonara for Carys / leftover Chicken and Carrot tagine for me Wednesday - Cheese and Potato Pie Thursday - McDs probably (we have 6th form open evening) Friday - Pizza Saturday -One pot Greek lemon Chicken and Rice - this recipe from recipe tin  One Pot Greek Chicken and Lemon Rice - best chicken and rice ever! | RecipeTin Eats Sunday - Roast something.. See it looks great, also great is the fact that I don't need to do an overly big shop on the 800th day of January... Ffi

  Most of the time  I think this government really has no idea which way is up and definitely haven't had kids. I mean it cant just be me that thinks this! They are currently showing adverts like the ones above and basically saying its the parents fault. And that kids who are worried in the morning will be fine once they get into school. But this is not what it looks like, this is nothing at all like what it feels like and as a parent this hits my every nerve. My youngest  has anxiety. Its all consuming and we are trying to get it under control but being under 18 she cannot access medication. Its horrible the struggle that her brain has on days when its nope not happening. I have her in tears and shaking and even the thought of going in later which the school has allowed, leads to full on panic attacks. She wants to go in, but every being of her body stops her. She can't access mental health support because CAHMS are under funded and have waiting lists longer than the yea...

Happy New Year and all that ( although it's probably too late now but at least it's still January. I'm currently sitting here with the cat on my lap wondering what to write. And then I thought I'd let you all know what I did this week... because what else is there to tell you! SUNDAY - Carys's birthday but she went and had supper at her dad's so in the evening I  built my lego orchid. The kids treated me to this at Christmas. I did have to get help from Carys as I may have zoned out ... MONDAY - went back to work and bought myself a diary and a pen for it. I'm going to try and use it every week. I've split the sides into work/personal and other. The pen is a koala and its got a rubber at the end so you can rub out mistakes. THE REST OF THE WEEK  - yeah then I just did work and some tidying. I did sort some shelves out that used to have dvds on. It looks so much better and my cookery books are now in one place. Hope you...