Tracing Rainbows

How do you clean your microwave oven? Mine is cleaned on a fairly regular basis, when my culinary creations become creMations. Bob says ther...

It's funny how things in life connect up sometimes. When I was away in Albania, I missed the local Churches Together Songs Of Praise E...

The Gentle Author has just published an update about the campaign to save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry [ read it here ]  There is an online ...

In a recent blog post I mentioned my newly re-covered ironing board. My blogfriend Frugally Challenged asked what became of the remainder o...

Last week there was a pile of knitting patterns at my craft group, and a box for charitable donations. All women's and children's ...

About 18 months ago, Liz took me to the ScandiKitchen  in Great Titchfield Street. We had a lovely light lunch and I enjoyed looking at th...

Cups of tea are constantly appearing here. It keeps me going - the poet William Cowper called it 'the cup that cheers but does not inebr...

Nobody is quite sure about the origin of the phrase "from pillar to post" -there are at least three theories It was originally...

I am beginning to feel that I am turning into a grumpy old woman, muttering and complaining about the way things are. But I am attempting ...

I'm sitting typing this on Saturday afternoon - Sunday we are both preaching morning and evening [Bob at UCF, me at 2 different chapel...

In the writings of the Greek Historian Diodorus Siculus, [born in Sicily, Ist Century BC] is a description of a massive Egyptian statue a...

For the first time in my life, I am living in a home which has a heated towel rail in the bathroom. It's so lovely to step out of the sh...

It's 25 years since this comedian died - and last Monday was the centenary of his birth.  But I put this picture here because of his l...

dark horse  [noun, usually singular ] a person who keeps their interests and ideas secret, especially someone who has a surprising ability ...