Approximately how many candles I will need for my birthday cake this year. It’s my birthday soon. I’ll be older than ever before. There...

In the down column: 1. My 102-year-old grandmother suffered a small stroke. 2. The fate of our missing family cat, Tigercat, was...

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...

Wearing my new spectacles: They make me look like Colin Firth in A Single Man. The ladies are going to swoon. Watching May Blossom’s...

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....

Have you seen this website, all about cabins, and this one, about woodsy hipster life? I am a bit obsessed with both right now. It’s...

Did you know there is such a thing as Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease? No? Well, you do now. I highly recommend not google-image searching...

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

The place was gone to rack and ruin. Only the Lighthouse beam entered the rooms for a moment, sent its sudden stare over bed and wall in...

Decorating: done (yes, all my bookshelves are this pretentious) There are but three shopping days left until Christmas, dear reader(s)....

Freezing fog, that’s the forecast for Denver this morning. I didn’t even know that was a thing. Shows how much I know about weather....

My kitchen is as tidy as my photographs are focused. As the day when we board a plane for a fourteen-hour flight with a toddler grows...

For forty-odd years several dozen of these people, with occasional additions for worthy new friends and subtractions for bad behaviour...

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

This young orang-utan could rustle up a tastier dinner that the recipe that follows. Sometimes when the supplies of food in our house get...

Fortunately, Other Jess turned up this morning with a tub of vanilla ice-cream and the words ‘iced coffee’ on her lips. I cancelled my...

This morning, between baking four huge chocolate cakes and dealing with a toddler suffering from what I thought was fear of the noise the...

May Blossom's Birthday Cake May Blossom turned one and it was a marvellous day. There were blueberry pancakes with maple syrup and bacon,...

In the lead-up to May Blossom’s birthday, the cake preparations continue. Today’s post is an homage to some of the great cakes of my...