I want to wish all of you what I’m wishing for myself today. A happy and peaceful Sunday. A time to gather strength and sanity before the festivities begin in earnest. I took this photo just as the sun was starting to go down yesterday on my way back from the supermarket across the road. […]

I think you all probably know that I live with teenagers – well to be honest two teenagers and a wannabee. Which amounts to the same thing really. When I say ‘live’ I could probably substitute several things,  but ‘try to survive, stay sane and keep them more or less on the straight and narrow’ […]

I’ve always been a bit of a large-scale long-term project kind of girl. I’m the one who inevitably embarks on the king-size quilt and spends two years hand-quilting it…..and has the masterpiece at the end to prove it. Earlier this year though I finally bit the bullet and learned to machine quilt, mainly because I […]

Saying ‘no’ at Church is a difficult thing. Not just for me. There is always, always, always guilt involved and sometimes, if I’m honest, people make use of those feelings in order to get others to do things that they want done. For many, many years I was in charge of flowers and decorations for […]

I read an article yesterday about cocooning, the unexplicable urge to stay home by the fire, bake, read ….and I’m sure it would have said ‘knit socks’ if the writer had been enlightened enough to know about  that particular pleasure. I had no idea that it was known as cocooning. Did you know that? I […]