Sunday walk.

[sister_luck]

We went on a walk through the neighbourhood this afternoon - this time to the part that is locally known as Gurkenland. I don't know whether this refers to cucumbers or gherkins, but it's a little suburban oasis on the edge of the city centre.

I'm still looking at the path, the road I'm taking and today I bring you a very patchy one:



It's a semi-public and little-used street which explains the lack of maintenance, but this year's harsh winter has caused lots of roads to look nearly as bad.

Here's an unusal addition to a house:



Personally, I think it's terribly ugly and full-blown kitsch (but not in the good way), but it seems to please the owners.

And lastly, on the way back, the scrapyard bathed in the evening sun with a very dark sky in the background.



Amazingly, the dramatic dark skies cleared up and they didn't bring any rain.

Comments

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

They day it might be nearly 20°C on Friday: right on time for my Easter break. I'm really looking forward to it. Last week with all the rain left me knackered. :-(

How are you feeling?

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

Last week was mostly ugly here, too, and cold! That kind of weather isn't good for my mood, because it means that I'm stuck inside.

I'm feeling fine, a bit nervous about Thursday's appointment and what it will probably bring, but apart from that everything seems to be going great. *knocks on wood*

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Lovely to hear things are looking up. I'll be thinking of you on Thursday!

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

Thank you. How are you holding up? Looking forward to the Easter break?

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Very much looking forward to the break, even though there's a ton of work to be done then.

Little Bit drank her very first bottle of formula milk today as I'm running out of mummy stuff due to fatigue. She drank it all up, and doesn't seem to mind it's not the real thing. So yeah, that's another lesson in letting go. :-(

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

Awww.

*hugs*

The letting go I think is the hardest part about parenting.

Hope you'll be able to get some well-deserved rest during the break.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

I will get some rest, because the way I'm living now isn't good for me. My colleague told me your energy quickly returns once you quit breast feeding, so I think it's the moment to start giving up quietly. I can load up the batteries again during Easter break for another period of breast feeding, but I think I will be too tired even quicker. She's almost four months now. I think it's okay to let go. And P. doesn't like my whiny-bitchy side. ;-)

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

Almost four months of exclusive breastfeeding is plenty. (I didn't get any.) And you need your energy, too.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

I didn't get any breast feeding either! So my Mama never interferes when I talk about feeding, which I do like about her.

The midwives at the hospital where Toril is born, told me the turnaround back to a majority of breast feeding women came somewhere in the eighties.

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

I think my mother wanted to breastfeed, but because I was so small when I was born, they kept me in the hospital for six weeks and my parents were only allowed to see my through a big window! I'm so glad that times have changed.

[lijability.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

We used to have a good scrap yard like that near here.... everything goes away....

*sigh*

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I like scrapyards. The smell of metal and oil; the sounds (clang, bang, scrape) even though that's not very pleasing to the ear.

I'm a bit weird.