The temperatures are down a little and I have finally settled down to a little hand-quilting. And it’s heaven, just heaven… I had (fairly firmly) resolved not to embark on more hand quilting projects, because well, although I love ihand-quilting, I’m pretty slow and well…..life is just too short… I’m certainly not going to embark […]

Today my youngest child is leaving primary school. After the summer I will have no-one running home for lunch every day and after 11 years of about as much parental input into the school as anyone could have – founding and running the PTA, volunteering for just about everything – today I’m drawing that chapter […]

Last night and this morning it rained – well, stormed to be honest. It’s wonderful now. The sun is shining but the temperatures are down to a comfortable level. As it’s the last day before the girls break up for the summer I scheduled myself some ‘me’ time to make some progress on some of […]

We are still ‘enjoying’ tropical temperatures over here in Switzerland, but I’m not sure that my home or I are really made for this. My daughters were even sent home from school today because the buildings were too hot. Extraordinary. Today they came home with their end of term reports. One of the two – […]

I’m back in a stage of life where things are measured by school years more than by calendar years. This week is the last week of school and it has set me to looking back and reflecting on the last year. Did it go well? Did it work out how we thought it would for […]