Temperatures have barely dipped below freezing here, but we’ve had wind-and-rainstorms to show us that winter still has teeth. And grey. Much grey. But many years ago, I filled my garden with a secret winter…
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It’s all cleared away, although there’s a container of mincemeat in the fridge, several more of turkey soup in the freezer, to remind us that Christmas was here. While I was putting together course outlines…
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Sometimes for me, Visibility comes in risking being more dressed up than our island lifestyle dictates. Given that I previously wore this dress to the opera, I did wonder if I could wear it to…
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I wasn’t going to bother posting again today, but somehow came across last year’sNew Year’s post which featured the sea, sky, and boats right in front of our place. A bit earlier today, I’d Tweeted…
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I did something clever in 2011, which made it much easier to collate my year’s reading list: I simply started a post at the beginning of the year, and tried to remember to add each…
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