Summer in Switzerland is drawing to a close. The first trees are starting to change, mornings are chilly and the children are leaving home in the dark to take trains for early school starts. The days are still bright and sunny, but the heat has gone and I know their days are numbered. Winter is […]

I used to be an inveterate worrier. If anything was coming up that I felt unsure about I would spend hours running through possible scenarios in my mind, mostly in the middle of the night, becoming more and more extreme and making sure that I couldn’t sleep afterwards and would be a compete wreck the […]

I’m still quietly and systematically clearing out. Getting rid of junk and making space. Today I pulled out this box. It hasn’t been touched in years – how many? difficult to say, 10, 15? It’s full of treasures. Plans and dreams. Things I’m going to do when… The contents come from a small business project […]

Today I’ve been catching up with housework, clearing out a whole load of junk that has been sitting gathering dust for a while and generally being a domestic goddess. Not an exciting day, but a quiet one where I could see some results and felt a little uplifted as a result. I managed to throw […]

There are several things in my life, that I have learnt by experience not to talk about in general conversation. Things which, although important to me, other people find well, strange… I started thinking about this because of a comment from Lizzie on the subject of pyjamas this week. She, like me, loves her flannel […]