Well I bet that caught your attention! It certainly caught mine! Yesterday I happened to look at the list of search terms that people had used to find my blog. Middle-aged nude plain ladies? Sorry? Have I missed something? Have I EVER written a post about middle-aged plain ladies? I mean, in my sleep? Did […]

I don’t know where the last week went….we had school holidays and although the teenagers certainly don’t want to spend time with their mother the days seemed to go by in a whirl of activity, none of which seemed to involve anything creative or interesting to blog about. The trials and tribulations of parenting teenagers […]

We’re having some glorious autumn days. Knowing what’s ahead makes me appreciate the warm sunshine and the crisp clarity of the views even more than usual. For once the late flowering shrubs are really coming into their own and blooming while the sun shines. It’s a race against time to get the garden put to bed […]

Things have taken a rather surreal turn here… Yesterday I went snorkelling and encountered two of these… One 5m and one 4m whale shark, maybe 10 yards away and today I had a whole school of manta rays swimming around me as I snorkeled. Thankfully to the best of my knowledge they are vegetarian or […]

I’m still in shock. Despite the slight claustophobia that has always in the past made me panic at the mere thought of diving below the ocean’s waves, with the help of a very patient and sympathetic dive instructor I managed my first ever dive yesterday. Luckily I had no idea of how deep we were […]