… a bit of that… I can’t remember last time I saw snow falling in March, perhaps when in New England during the nannying days, ahem 29 years ago… (depressing thought). It’s beautiful though, so so beautiful, and we have food and heating and warm coffee so what’s not to like? Also, right now everybody …
We got back from our half term break to find snowdrops flowering everywhere around here. It’s such a welcome sight because it really feels spring is around the corner and the dark winter days are finally over. Nature never lies. Did you know there are more than 2500 varieties of snowdrops? Mind boggling… The latin …
Yup, still alive… but what a week it has been. I can honestly say that I can’t remember last time I was so ill for such a long time and with lots of different things one after the other… First, as you know, my back just ‘went’… eventually the magic hands of the masseur at …
So… I still haven’t been skiing. I was going to try today.. but the weather is absolutely awful (or beautiful… because let’s face it, watching the snow falling on dark pine trees is pretty beautiful, right?) and it’s snowing quite heavily and I don’t think that poor visibility, snow drifts and unknown pistes are a …
Day one. We arrived yesterday afternoon to blue skies… flying over the Alps is always breathtaking, I am never tired of seeing this view. The transfer from Innsbruck Airport to St Anton (Austria) is really quick, just over an hour, and before we could say are we there yet… we were there… (Hotel St Antoner …
No I’m not moving you silly! I’m packing a suitcase. We’re going skiing. Actually that first sentence is quite accurate… I’m not moving at all, as my back is still playing up, which makes the whole ‘we’re going’ skiing a little more wishful thinking than reality. I’m trying to stay positive and I’ll report back …
I know that this year’s colour is lavender but I can’t help by noticing yellow everywhere I look. It seems to me it’s a colour that has been ignored for a long while and now you can’t escape it. Yellow is the colour of the mind and of the intellect, it’s uplifting, illuminating, it inspires …
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 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 …
10 days. 10 items of clothing. (excluding underwear/pjs or coats or work out clothes). Doable? Should be. In my ‘urge to purge’ mode (still going strong) I toyed with the idea of ‘mary kondo’ my wardrobe but I just can’t do it to that extend. I have got rid (either charity shop or eBay) of …
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