Entwined

“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.”  

Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli's Mandolin

The Outfit

Dress: Charity shop

Skirt: from Granny Penny

Sandals: from Asos

Hat: Charity shop

The Soundtrack

Goldfrapp: Tales Of Us

I've not made a blog post for so long I'd almost forgotten how to do it! My babies are now walking talking toddlers, and most solitary free time is spent doing the laundry.

I did have a 20 minute break from childcare yesterday and the sun was shining so I took these photos as quickly as I could before I went back in to give the girls their bath.

To respect their privacy, I won't be showing my children's faces on this blog, but it feels ok to show you how big they've grown in these photos from our recent Easter egg hunt:

A Woman Changed (Times Two)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.

The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry

 Took its place among the elements.

 

Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.

In a drafty museum, your nakedness

Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.

 

I'm no more your mother

 Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow

 Effacement at the wind's hand.

 

All night your moth-breath

Flickers among the flat pink roses.

  I wake to listen: A far sea moves in my ear.

 

One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral

In my Victorian nightgown.

Your mouth opens clean as a cat's.

 

The window square

Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try

Your handful of notes; The clear vowels rise like balloons.

 

 

Morning Song by Sylvia Plath, via 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

The Outfit:

Vintage Stretchy Black Dress: from a charity shop

Green Sequin belt just seen: from a friend

Earrings: from Accessorize

 

 

I've not been online or blogging much recently, and now you can see why.

I've been working on a particularly happy, important and taxing project: that of growing two babies inside me!

This multiple pregnancy will (fingers crossed) continue to take up much of my energy in the coming months, and future years of mothering, so I'll be blogging less frequently, but still hopefully about once or twice a month from now on.

 

 

Photos taken a few weeks ago when I was 18 weeks pregnant with twins.

Hoping you're all well, looking forward to catching up soon.

 

 

Welcome To The Geopod

The soul selects her own society,
Then shuts the door;
On her divine majority
Obtrude no more.

Unmoved, she notes the chariot's pausing
At her low gate;
Unmoved, an emperor is kneeling
Upon her mat.

I've known her from an ample nation
Choose one;
Then close the valves of her attention
Like stone.

 

 

by Emily Dickinson, via 1

 

 

 

The Outfit:

Vintage Silver Donna Karan Dress: bought in a charity shop years ago

Black Wool & Faux Fur Cardigan: very old from the High Street

Nude Pumps: old from New Look

Vintage Faux Leopard Coat: found in Afflecks Palace, Manchester in the 1990s

 

 

 

The Soundtrack 

David Bowie: Space Oddity

 

 

All photographs taken by Mr Eve or myself during a weekend holiday on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall.  Details of The Geopod, available for holiday let, can be found at the glamping website Canopy & Stars.

 

 

 

 I am delighted to be a part of the next Visible Monday, hosted by Patti from Not Dead Yet Style, click on the website link to see her outfit and those of many others.