or….the way to an English girl’s heart…. or….what crazy foreigners do in Switzerland to totally convince the Swiss that they are off their heads… This (along with my children) is my pride and joy! A two door electric Aga, nine years old, British racing green, weight 900kg, well-used…One of the few possessions without which I […]

This week I have the whole family home. It’s the last week of vacation and the weather has been very so-so, but it is now picking up a bit and the weekend should at least be nice. In retrospect I think I must have been a little deluded, but I seriously came back from the […]

I’m off tomorrow to drive to the UK to visit friends and family, delivery my daughter and her friend to a musical theatre camp and go back to old haunts. I’ll be offline for a few days but hope to come back with some photos, stories and memories to share with you. I’m visiting one […]

Right now my life is full. Full of the running of a household, looking after 3 children, building up my editing and consulting business, blogging, the mundanities of domesticity. I know that I could very easily – and will very easily, if I don’t watch out – continue along this path. But at the end […]

This week I’ve been systematically clearing up and cleaning through the whole house. It’s a rather surreal experience to clean somewhere and then come back the next day and find it still tidy and as I left it. This is only possible because two of the children and my husband are away. What it all […]