As much as I love a gin and tonic I am surprisingly unfussy about how they are prepared. As long as it has gin and tonic water in it,...

So sweet, you’d never know they have tiny ear canals brimming with filth and germs. Nor that the one on the right is about to throw up in...

I want to know because H just made me a gin and tonic to stop me being so very grumpy and Sundaynighty and horrible (my mother suggested...

In the event of finding yourself over thirty-eight weeks pregnant and suffering from a virus that makes you burn with fever and shake...

Oh for the days when the in-seat phone was all the entertainment she needed. In about four hours we are heading to the airport to fly for...

I actually had a very, very nice birthday. May Blossom decided that I should enjoy the day for as many hours as possible so she got up at...

This week I moved all our wine from the hall cupboard into wine racks on top of the spare room wardrobe, relocating the spirits to the...

I bought the tickets a few months ago on a whim, because H loves Bonnie Prince Billy, who is a grumpy-looking, balding, blond bearded...

In other areas of my life in which I am clearly not money, I went back to the gym today for the first time since I was five months...

Wearing sandals,  thongs, or plastic Melissa shoes. Looking at the photograph ‘Nat and the Girls’ by my clever friend John Witzig,...

When we arrived in Perth three days ago, sixteen hours after Pappy’s death, we were running on what could charitably described as empty....

More guests arrived and three cats became four; an eleven-dollar blow-up paddling pool provided at least twelve dollars worth of fun; I...

Welcome to Cape Fear. Also Cape Hliarious Strategic Removal of Letters on Signs. I’ve been thinking this morning about H’s and my...

What this means is that the food bloggers are always writing about the finding delicious new season apples in their farmers’ markets just...

reading about monochromes. I had read about this phenomenon years ago here and forgotten all about it. listening to Stornoway. wearing my...