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Daphne Bennett

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  • Bye Bye, 2025 / 又到年尾

    Bye Bye, 2025 / 又到年尾

    There are years that my Google Map review shown my furthest adventure was a supermarket 5 miles east to my house or a park 10 miles west, as a passenger. But not this year. I went to London 3 times, visited Edinburgh, Durham, drove to Barnsley and flew Hong Kong. I haven’t flown for 8…

    Daphne Bennett

    December 29, 2025
    Uncategorized
    travel
  • 太多經歷,太少意義。

    太多經歷,太少意義。

    “We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.” ― T.S. Eliot (Scroll to bottom for English version) T.S Elliot 話,太多經歷,太少意義。 我想寫中文,唔理有無人睇,唔理邊個睇 ,唔理AI 寫得好過我。我想寫中文。 有好多嘢我都有自知之明 ——自知唔明。 個個都寫嘢,寫咗又無人睇。 唔使急,唔係趕住做KOL 急住要分析時事局勢,指點江山,寫完又無人睇,都係寫啲茶餘飯後嘅傷春悲秋,諗下先,睇定啲先。 我日日嘗試做得好啲,我都唔知好啲—係搵多兩個錢,定陪啲細路多啲,定間屋吸塵拖地換床單,周末meal plan 計劃好啲,定睇多啲書,定學多幾隻字,定寫嘢,定畫嘢,定見多啲人,定諗下平時返工有咩進步嘅空間,定學多啲電腦酬備轉工,定填下form搵份有大啲機會可持續發展嘅工? 我完全唔知點先叫做好啲。我以為工作安穩,但常有控制不了嘅人事問題令我個個月都有衝動劈炮唔撈。跟住我諗,係我自己見識少,係我少少嘢都瓜瓜叫,挨多兩星期又出糧, it can’t be that bad。 究竟點先可以做得啱?我覺得我仲係好似五歲時,幾努力都係俾人打。 人大咗講嘢無咁大聲,自我HR 審查,怕得罪人。但我成世人都唔知點解,不明所意,成日得罪人。我以為我終於開竅嘅時候,下星期又打回原形。人大咗,接受自己渺小如塵,平庸無稽,但我幾唔想俾人見到,要生存,我都要融入社會㗎。我唔想做能人所不能,但我唔放棄做自己,唔諗辦法超越現時嘅我,我就死得。 但同時我仲係default parent,星期一至日都係我最早起身,整早餐放狗幫啲細路換衫預時間出門口準時返學返工,返工前設定洗衣乾衣 D 細路有校服著,放工後煮飯洗碗放狗晾衫摺衫,返工學習HR…

    Daphne Bennett

    December 6, 2025
    Uncategorized
  • To live, is to ____ up.

    To live, is to ____ up.

    and I have given up pretending otherwise. a year since i printed my new business cards on moo, i had done no blogging, sketched a few lines and hardly touched any python. what a let-down. i still spend far too much time on the phone and drink too much. no one is going to read…

    Daphne Bennett

    August 18, 2025
    Uncategorized
    blog, life, mental-health, writing
  • Picking a lane, or three

    Picking a lane, or three

    I have printed a pile of business cards from moo.com. I don’t know what to call myself. I am not defined by my roles I currently tenure. I have been working in a charity job on Friday, at children theatre on Saturday and at a children home on Sunday, and I also volunteer for the…

    Daphne Bennett

    October 16, 2024
    diary, journaling, life lessons, updates
    businesscards, illustration, namecards
  • Thoughts before turing 37

    Thoughts before turing 37

    In 3 days it will be my birthday. I will be 3 36 has been a strange year. I have never done so much in a year, I think. I have started a Substack last year, before I started working, and a website/blog a couple of years ago, then I ran away and have hardly…

    Daphne Bennett

    October 6, 2024
    Uncategorized
    career, education, jobs, leadership, mental-health
  • Week 5 and 6 of Coloriombo

    Week 5 and 6 of Coloriombo

    Time flies! Este Macleod’s palette is inspired by Barbara Nissim. Not the style or colours that I normally would pick so it has been a bit of a challenge. Especially page two. I do like page one though, it’s a murmuration of Starlings that my sis-in-law and I witnessed after we went to watch the…

    Daphne Bennett

    February 20, 2023
    diary, journaling, weekly roundup
    artwork, drawing, drawing my days, gouache, illustration, love, motherhood, sketchbook, sketchbook art, watercolour
  • Week 4 of Colorcombo

    Week 4 of Colorcombo

    The 4th week of Colorcombo is inspired by Leon Spilliaert. On one hand I am glad I have done 4 weeks of journaling. It takes up a considerable amount of time. This week the colour is very cold and sad. It’s a fun thing to do but I am not sure if I really like…

    Daphne Bennett

    February 2, 2023
    diary, illustration, journaling, motherhood
    illustration, motherhood
  • End of January

    End of January

    I just can’t procrastinate any further. Now we have reached the end of the month and I still haven’t posted any updates. I am still finding my voice, the middle ground between being friendly and honest but refrain myself from oversharing. I don’t know I should write in English or Chinese, in written Chinese or…

    Daphne Bennett

    January 31, 2023
    diary, journaling, life lessons, updates, weekly roundup
    art, artist, diary, journal, journaling, motherhood, new year resolution, newadventure, paint your day, parenting, pencil, pencil colours, pencil sketch
  • Happy new year, another year.

    Happy new year, another year.

    First day of the year. This is the first time for a while I am alone in the house without my kiddies so I am going to write a quick post before they come back. It has been a very busy year for us. We have decided to move back to Darlington, put the house…

    Daphne Bennett

    January 1, 2023
    diary, illustration, motherhood
    artwork, Christmas, drawing, illustration, love, motherhood, parenthood, parenting, watercolour
  • So another half a year gone

    So another half a year gone

    More than half a year has gone. Ya we moved from Scotland to Darlo. That alone kept me very busy last few months. I haven’t got a childminder and Juno isn’t in nursery yet. So I haven’t had time to update website etc. Apart from housework and baby duties, I have also been busy making…

    Daphne Bennett

    December 1, 2022
    diary, illustration, motherhood
    artwork, drawing, gouache, illustration, motherhood, parenting, pencil colours, watercolour
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