{"id":189,"date":"2007-12-29T06:19:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T00:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2007\/12\/29\/first-week%e2%80%99s-fry-up-spilt-milk-and-all%e2%80%a6\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T00:02:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T18:02:06","slug":"first-week%e2%80%99s-fry-up-spilt-milk-and-all%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.piajanebijkerk.com\/WordPress\/2007\/12\/29\/first-week%e2%80%99s-fry-up-spilt-milk-and-all%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"First Week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fry Up: Spilt Milk and all\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"

wishingoak1.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

What a week! Okay it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been longer than a week since my first post, but let me tell you what was really going on behind the scenes! <\/p>\n

First up I have been so overwhelmed by the support from fellow bloggers, old friends and new friends for my first week of posting. Tears have been shed! I am an artist, what can I say, and artists are a sensitive bunch who need to hear their work is touching someone, therefore I am more than thankful for those of you who like my work to have commented. It has kept me going\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and going while I lay half conscious in bed for the entire lead up to Christmas, and the eve, and the day until yesterday – ridden with the horrible epidemic that has hit France. I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go into the gory details of the sickness (but you can read about this latest plague here<\/a>), however I was determined to push through and deliver what I set out to for the first week albeit a little inconsistently. <\/p>\n

I did not lose my sense of humour though, and during the heaving and head-in-a-steel-vice I would lay half asleep thinking about how I had stated in my very first handy hints<\/a> post that \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhile everyone else around me is coughing and sneezing I am not.<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. The stuff was bloody useless this week. <\/p>\n

Another inner titter came in one of my comatoses when I realised I had just lectured a friend who had said she got back from a holiday with her husband to Paris and was horribly ill for the whole trip. I replied very seriously and told her that it is all too common to get sick when you have been working yourself so hard and not keeping a balance, and that the moment you go away your body relaxes and the toxins come out. I left her with something along the lines of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmake sure you look after yourself\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Meanwhile I was juggling well more than my two hands worth and the balance of nature took hold of me.<\/p>\n

So while I lay barely alive realising my ridiculousness, the mind image of my friend Jboo was circling around the mess like a ghost, her arms half cocked in the air with her now quoted line for when things get chaotic on set: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153everybody, just caaaaaalm the #%*! down\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. (wish i had an image of her for you)<\/p>\n

I was over-ambitious for my first week I concur. There were posts I said I would write that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. But I never back out when I say I will produce something, so it is all coming in good time, and I am thankful for your patience with my little blog learning curves. <\/p>\n

In case you missed some of the good stuff, what did we all get up to in the (blog)house this first week?<\/p>\n

  • Trend<\/a>: Christmas colours for this year. Love a bit of craft paper don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t I!<\/li>\n
  • Handy Hint<\/a>: our first was on Eucalyptus:
    \nmagic cure for a French epidemic!<\/STRIKE> (I just wanted to test out that strike through button!)<\/li>\n
  • \nHandmade<\/a>: The incredible laptop handcrafted to look like it stepped out of the Victorian era, who would have thought it. <\/li>\n
  • Celebrations! Menu: easy and impressive and is in the kitchen right now<\/a><\/li>\n
  • And mini trips GALORE: what a journey! The wishing tree<\/a> was a TOTAL surprise and we only discovered it Christmas Eve morning, it was one of the most magical places I have ever encountered and I hope I was able to express it to you. I am looking forward to doing a full guide of Le Val D\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Amour by season and with accommodation\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I have a certain chateau in mind that I think you will love!<\/li>\n

    Plus I have just figured out bullet points.<\/p>\n

    And the spilt milk? On my travels I decided to take a jar of soymilk, as I love my black tea with soy. And even though I tried to keep it upright it slowly but surely spilt all through my handbag and by Christmas Eve the jar was empty and my handbag had hardened to a crusty milky piece of cardboard fabric. Over-ambitious indeed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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