Mimi

At uni I chatting to friends about how David Bowie used to be in The Snowman, in a short bit of the film where it was clear that the animation was Bowie’s reminiscences. They looked at me like I dropped from the sky. I hope now it’s been reintroduced that this is the only occasion they think of me.

Plain white room with grubby walls and 1970s wooden light fitting, with orange stained built-in woodwork

Plain white room with grubby walls and 1970s wooden light fitting, with orange stained built-in woodwork

Bright room with wallpaper mural that looks like a tropical glasshouse, bright accessories.

Bright room with wallpaper mural that looks like a tropical glasshouse, bright accessories

Decorated the Living room. Before and after: moving in day vs now.

Making a macrame plant hanger and it’s tying me in knots.

No, really, it’s annoying the heck out of me. I’ve made them before, easy, could do it in my sleep. Today? Nope. Hate string. Hate tangles. Hate plants. Hate gravity.

What nonsense. Everyone knows that there are two units of measurement that are universally recognised: bananas and double decker buses.

Hello, I’m looking for some friendly nerd guidance, please.

I’d like to run some LED strip grow lights across my shelves where I raise my veg seedlings. How do I connect the LED ribbon to a power source? Would like a mixture of full spectrum and blurple.

Good to know there is a possible reason I became allergic to cats about four years ago 😅

I’m 45, so probably well into this, but because I have various chronic conditions such as Cushings, Gilberts, etc, I think they mask what I might notice otherwise. Conversely, things almost certainly indicative of chronic illness have oftentimes been dismissed as ‘just hormonal changes’ by male GPs.

successor (or something along those lines) that bothered me a bit, too.

On the flip side, I noticed more nuance to Red as a character when I watched them as an adult. She isn’t just a poster girl for ADHD (😅) but has a few moral awakenings along the way (and the best hair).

Manipulate. She sees it as being g justified because she believes in the righteousness of what she is trying to achieve. She does realise by the episode closing that the end does not justify the means, however.

There is another episode, when the musical mystic comes and basically names her his

Yes, I noticed hat. She’s the only one who looks markedly different from the original models.

I think the new episodes are missing Marjorie and the two trash heap helpers, which I used to love as well.

I think there is at least one episode liaise where Mokey quite calculatedly seeks to

I used to feel that I wanted to be like Mokey when I was a kid, but watching the episodes back as I did recently with my own 8 year old, I noticed that Mokey regularly uses quite manipulative tactics to get her friends to do what she wants. She may be a cult leader.

Potato Weekend 2024 - Mimi Codd In my calendar, there’s an important date that must not go unnoticed: The Potato Weekend. It’s the time of year when we put on our big coats for a trip to the big, far-away garden centre — which...

Potato Weekend 2024: completed ☑️

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In a different millennium, I worked in car insurance covering the Pennines, and one winter we suddenly had a huge spike of cars hitting sheep, and it turned out that one council switched from salt to a salt/molasses mix, which the sheep thought was delicious, so they crowded the roads to eat it.

Marmalade day was a big success

Marmalade Day 2024

Are you in a hot air balloon?

Shouldn’t be going to school if he has a stomach ache. School policies state that a child should be 48 hours clear of any symptoms of potential stomach bug before attending.

The Next Three Christmas Ornaments - Mimi Codd Now that Christmas is over and life creeps back to ‘normal’ I was hoping to find a bit more time and mental space to ease into the new year with some more ornaments from this set. I’ve sometimes...

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Ornaments 4-6

Also contains pictures of my newly decorated dining room for the curious 🤫

12 Days Of Christmas Ornaments - Mimi Codd Towards the end of 2023 I pushed the spend button on a the blueprints and materials for project that I had been coveting for many years: Larissa Holland’s 12 Days Of Christmas felt ornament patterns...

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A few of the recent things I have been making.

They yellowed significantly and then went brittle.

I thought this was a thing of the past, but yesterday I noticed my overlocker had started down that road.

This week my plans include making a truly ridiculous number of Yorkshire puddings.

Today I am making pyjamas and mince pies. These are the days that feel most like life to me.

Good luck with that. I could rock up to my doctors with my legs missing and they’d tell me to hop up on the treadmill for a quick jog.

I haven’t been able to watch TV without subtitles since I was about 15. I don’t know what it is, but it isn’t my hearing. I have ‘exceptional hearing’ according to the doctor at the hospital, but something gets lost between hearing the words and making out what they’re saying.

I’m already craving Christmas ghost stories.

In the past three days I have made hot cross buns and mince pies. I have no idea what time of year it is, but it’s definitely being time (the buns were a request from my 8 year old, and the pies were to test the batch of mincemeat I made a few weeks ago).

I am somehow both 85 and 15.

Are you a ‘cusper’ like me? (December ‘78 here). I don’t pay too much heed to the generational pigeonholing, but am amused that the forgotten generation are still always forgotten in memes. They jump straight from boomer to millennial 😅

Hello hello.

Currently decorating the dining room so everything is everywhere, and untidy house = untidy mind, but hopefully will find a date for the flooring to be put in soon.

Then it’ll be time to hang wallpaper. The best bit.