Non-toxic positivity + clumsy paddling

Okay. It’s been a little minute, but here I am. Since I last wrote the days have been a bit hard, I will admit, and I have been swimming very close to the dark weeds. Luckily I am a determined and fortunate bugger. I have managed to paddle slowly away from the gloom-mood albeit doing a rather clumsy stroke. I am balancing feeling teary under the doona with concentrating on the good things. I’m working on carving out future better days … even if they are a couple of months away.

I’ve started packing up our things and have been looking for somewhere to live back in Melbourne. I’m going to try to live very close to Rinn (my eldest kiddo) so that we can help each other and see each other much more. I call it “making up for lost time.”

Because I have been pretty unwell for the last few months, my income has been low and my savings are gone. Thus I have come up with a new project to help fund our unexpected move back to Victoria. It’s a foodie newsletter called Hungry Hungry Pippo, combining two of my favourite things - cooking and writing.

I am excited to see where it goes and I am sure I can make a go of all this and we will be settled into some cosy digs somewhere, away from the chaos that has (sadly) surrounded us here in Tassie over the last few months.

(I had such plans! And for the garden too! But it’ll be okay because a new garden will be waiting for us in Melbourne, I am sure. And I wouldn’t have thought to start a recipe newsletter if all this hadn’t happened. There are bonuses amidst the hard bits if you look hard enough for them.)

I’m looking very much forward to slow neighbourhood walks and perhaps some short beach weekends at Venus Bay. And Sunday dinners with my kids. And hopefully some calmer days and time with good friends.

I hope you are having calmer days as things begin to ease for some people, pandemic-wise.

Perhaps you’d like to watch this video? I watched it this morning and it was bolstering and funny. Just the medicine we need!

I hope you are hanging in there and I hope you too are able to paddle away from the dark weeds, pals. Any kind of clumsy stroke will do, as long as it works for you.

So much love to you!

x Pip