I had great plans for today, but apart from starting to edit an engineering paper, rescuing a teenager from Zürich (the power went out in half of the city so no trains were running) and buying potatoes to eat with raclette tonight, I have achieved very little of significance. I’ve been lying around for weeks […]

  The incredibly gift of the ordinary! Glory comes streaming from the table of daily life Macrina Wiederkehr (A Tree Full of Angels, 1988) Sometimes something very small can make a big difference in my day. I’m taking time to notice the little things and trying to put everything else into its true perspective! Helen

It’s really quite wild outside today – with high winds and big black clouds overhead. The rain will be back in a minute I’m sure. On days like today I can’t think of anything nicer than being cosily indoors, firmly ensconced on the sofa and happily knitting along. I’ve just finished my Twisted Fate socks […]

I’ve been sitting on the sofa knitting socks quite a lot this week. Nothing very momentous to report other than that they are nearly finished, and that they seem to be taking ages! Which got me to thinking…. Skipping around the internet and reading some of the blogs that I follow regularly I am amazed […]

Over the last couple of weeks I have – rather under protest – morphed into a couch potato, albeit a reluctant one. In my real life I am probably about the least couch potatoey person you could imagine. My bottom barely ever touches a seat or stays there for long. I am a flibertigibbet of […]