I love Christmas cards – and I always have a really hard time throwing them away after Christmas and keeping them year after year isn’t really an option. Particularly when I spend my life trying to declutter as much as possible. So what I’ve taken to doing over the last few years is making gift […]

I know you all thought that I’d been lying around all week eating Cadbury’s Dairy Milk and drinking gin and tonics while waiting for my back to heal. (I was actually tickled pink that my son wrote in all his Christmas thank you letters that ‘mum couldn’t ski because she has broken her bottom’. One […]

Today is Epiphany – the day the three kings visited baby Jesus. Here we celebrate Dreikönigstag by eating Dreikönigskuchen – literally three kings cake – sweet bread covered with sugar and almonds. One of those little balls around the edge always contains the king ( a little plastic man). Somehow it seems my husband always […]

How many days are we into the new year? 5? Oh dear… Thats’s really sad…. That’s all it took for me to break my New Years Not Resolution not to add to my stashes of books, fabric and yarn…. Pathetic really. In a weak, weak moment I was seduced into joining the Three Irish Girls […]

As seen on my daily strolls around Andermatt. I could happily live in any of these! They’re lovely, aren’t they? – some very old and some new and somehow they all piece together so well! I just love mountain homes. My purple scarf is making progress, but I’ve decided not to show it until it’s […]