Tracing Rainbows

This is just to say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they ...

I'm swooning in the extreme heat, dreaming about the sewing I would like to be doing, but my hands are too hot and sweaty  ...  I thank ...

I have this jar of za'atar on my spice rack. No idea which recipe I bought it for. I suspect one of Yotam Ottolenghi's Israeli/Medie...

I blame Hollywood - historians say that Vikings probably didn't wear helmets-with-horns most of the time. Yet that is what people pictur...

The Northern Lights were clearly visible over North Norfolk on Monday night. I should have loved to have gone and seen them, but Bob had a P...

We've been on Grandparent Duty this week. Great fun, but exhausting! Rosie asked if she could create some 'mythical magical potions...

A quick - much belated- review of two more library books. First up, Keda Black's "Batch Cooking - Prep and cook your weeknight din...

I'm not sure if it is the heat, or blackfly, or both - but having harvested around 100g - a mere handful - of runner beans, the remainin...

Last week, another 'nibling', my niece's son Arthur celebrated his first birthday. We gave him a Noah's Ark with all the ani...

Down to Essex on Thursday this week, with my brother Adrian, for another family funeral. Helen was only 54, and whilst on holiday in Kent wi...

Here in the UK, the British Board of Film Classification   gives age ratings, and viewing guidance before any film can be shown in the publ...

Kirsten and I have just swapped our linen postcards. I was a little late in posting- so I had both  pieces of embroidery in the house at onc...

I have mentioned the Craft Group to which I belong. We are an incredibly diverse bunch, taking all sorts of different crafts along to work a...

  Yet another memory bear has gone off to its new home. A friend brought round some of her Dad's shirts to make a bear for her Mum. As a...

  ...She Is Fierce This is one of my favourite quotes from A Midsummer Night's Dream - in fact it is on our family photos wall, a gift f...