There’s nothing wrong with reading children’s books in fact when the kids were younger I tried reading books before passing them to them so we could talk about it, or I could answer their questions if they had any. That kind of stopped when No 1 went through his Lee Child phase (20 book …
I’ve made it through to the end of the 10×10 winter experiment. 10 Items to be worn for 10 days in different combination. 10 only. Including shoes. (Obvs not including underwear, pjs, accessories or working out gear or coats). You can see what I had selected here. And here are is what I wore; only …
Children (by Khalil Gibran) And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, ‘Speak to us of Children.’ And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet …
Do you believe love at first sight? I do. Or let me put it in a different way… you know how sometimes you see something or someone and it’s familiar… like you’ve seen before, or been there before… in another life or something. Not that I believe in reincarnation per se… but you know what …
when you your son and his awesome hockey team become Under 16 National Indoor Champions 2018. and you cry of happiness in front of the computer screen you’ve been refreshing every two minutes because you’re not there to see it in person (I was holding the fort at home…) When people keep hanging lost …
This one never gets old. Have a great weekend.
It’s amazing what you can do with a bag of scraps! I’d ordered a couple of bags of scraps from the Denyse Schmidt’s website a few months back and the other week when the sewing itch needed to be scratched I cracked open one of them and just started sewing pieces together. Like a puzzle. …
This morning I’m writing to you sitting, not at my usual kitchen table, but crosslegged on a gorgeous milky blue/green sofa which perfectly matches the stormy sea in front of me on the other side of the window. I’m spending 24 hours with a friend in Salcombe a beautiful seaside town in the South West of …
I have a new cookery book and I love it. First a couple of premises: my children are fussy eaters and their taste don’t match either which makes cooking for them either very boring or very time-consuming. I don’t like doing the same things over and over again and I certainly don’t want to be …
Let’s get this week started… Morning (by Billy Collins) Why do we bother with the rest of the day, the swale of the afternoon, the sudden dip into evening, then night with his notorious perfumes, his many-pointed stars? This is the best— throwing off the light covers, feet on the cold floor, and buzzing around …
while you're ahead... 