Sometimes I think we get the most happiness from the simple pleasures that touch our everyday lives. The little things. These made me happy today…. a good cup of coffee and a freshly baked hot cross bun for breakfast (I posted the recipe last year – it’s in the cooking section if you want it!) […]

Do you ever have days when no matter how hard you seem to be trying, nothing seems to get done? I don’t often have that sort of day, but the last few days have just been hopeless here. No reason really. There are a lot of things going on outside of the house – dentist […]

Today it is officially spring – and rather amazingly – here in the hills in north-east Switzerland it really IS spring. It’s still cold out of the sunshine, but things are starting to grow.  I’ve spent the day waiting for a report to come in for editing and alternating between clearing my vegetable patches ready […]

Yesterday I had a million plans for things I wanted to make progress on – working on my novel, maybe going for a run, doing laundry, clearing out a couple of cupboards, writing a blog post, working on my quilting projects, playing the piano….the list was long, but probably do-able. I went to to church, […]

Today I’m writing with my wife and mother hat on. It struck me yesterday when I was drinking up the beautiful perfume of my little jasmine plant that what I was doing was a little out of the ordinary. I don’t very often do something nice just for me and just because I want to. […]