Five of them
Loose notebooks, not categories.
An entry goes in whichever one it would have gone in on paper. Nothing is cross-filed, nothing has fourteen tags, and if something genuinely belongs in two, it goes in the one I reached for first.
Home
8 entriesHow the house runs, on the weeks it runs. Mostly routines — the ones that stuck, and a fair number that didn’t survive a fortnight.
- Presents for people who say they don’t want presents
- The Saturday list that finally stuck
- The medicine drawer, after the winter we had
Table
8 entriesFood we have made more than three times. If it only happened once it isn’t in here, however good it was.
- The lentil soup we’ve made forty times
- Feeding other people’s children
- The traybake that covers three dinners
Road
7 entriesTwo hours forty to my parents, four to Tom’s. Everything we’ve learned about doing that with a six-year-old, a three-year-old and a dog who is sick on roundabouts.
- The camping trip that went sideways
- Staying at my mum’s, and the travel cot years
- Presents for people who live two hours away
Growing Up
7 entriesThe part I’m least sure about publishing, so it moves slowly. Nothing goes in here that either of them would mind reading at fifteen.
- Pocket money, and the three systems we tried
- What we decided about screens, and how long it held
- What we gave my dad for his eightieth
Things We Keep
5 entriesTom’s notebook. Repairs, materials, and the argument that most broken things are only broken in one place.
Open Things We Keep