I can’t tell you how often I feel grateful that I’m self-employed and work from home. For those of you who don’t know, I work as a freelance editor and translator  for academics who want to publish in English language academic journals and for whom English is not their first language. I got into it […]

I’m really getting into this cherishing and being domesticated lark. Combined with my autumn desire to put stores away for the winter means that it is all starting to get a little out of hand though. This morning down at the farm shop I bought 3kg of beautiful Fellenburg plums to stew and freeze… (please […]

My inability to run sees me with more hours at home. It’s also low season in the academic editing business this month, so I seem to have more time pottering around  than usual. I’ve been perusing more blogs than normal too! I’m always interested in seeing how people are decluttering and simplifying as this is […]

Once the weather breaks and the nights start to draw in and it’s dark in the mornings when we’re getting up , every year it’s the same. I stop wanting to go out any more than I absolutely must. I fill the freezer just incase we’re snowed in (which of course never happens, this being […]

One of the few days where I can tell you exactly where I was and what I was doing on that day in two particular years: 1993 My wedding day 2001 At home watching CNN as the twin towers fell Somehow it will always be a day of sadness though and I rather wish it […]