The Gentle Art

Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 11:59.Reading time 1 minute.

I was given this book as a gift. It’s a bit tatty now yet still loved. It’s the kind of thing a pathetic, worthless HOUSEWIFE enjoys. Jane Brocket delights in domesticity. Lively, curious and creative, she takes inspiration from her surroundings, from art, literature and nature and, through the gentle arts of knitting, baking […]

Cabbages and Roses

Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 11:35.Reading time 2 minutes.

I have just about ALL of Christina Strutt’s books. This is a fave. Shoot – long overdue a reread. I’m long overdue another reminder of how and why and ……..:o) Saving the planet for future generations is a laudable aim, but why wait when quite small changes to your lifestyle can make a big […]

Fire from Heaven

Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 11:09.Reading time 1 minute.

Mary Renault is a fine writer. I’ve loved her books. My sadness, now, is that I can no longer read them with the same joy and excitement :o( In the first novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created […]

Smile Cat

Tuesday, 12 November 2019, 17:26.Reading time less than 1 minute.

😺 The last of four. Bless her. She lost her twin brother and her two mummies. I called her Meggie #2 Wiki : The Thorn Birds Crap photo. But the dog’s Elmo in the background screwed it up!

25 October 1415

Sunday, 10 November 2019, 13:31.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Ken Bran will remind y’all what happened then and where :o) Schwoon

He’d LOL at This.

Sunday, 10 November 2019, 13:18.Reading time less than 1 minute.

He being Dad. The drummer Oh. Sense of humour has unfailed :o)

See the Sun

Sunday, 10 November 2019, 12:47.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I’ve held off on Dido for a long time. Why? Her voice reminds me of Dolores. Whatever! TMI.

My Kind of IF

Sunday, 10 November 2019, 12:20.Reading time 1 minute.

Apologies to Mr R Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you If I can keep my head when all about me Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, Are trolling others and blaming it on me If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, If I […]

My Bad

Friday, 8 November 2019, 14:46.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I called it. Whatev’s

Aran Sweater

Friday, 8 November 2019, 13:00.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Might’ve said this before. Shrug. I’m a knitter. I come from a family of knitters. I was taught “how-to” at the age of 6 in school in Scotland. Boys and girls together were taught. About 30, 000 years ago. The last one that I knotted was finished at around 11.30 one Christmas Eve. It was […]

Earthing

Friday, 8 November 2019, 11:40.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Told you the list was long. The late, great Leslie recommended this to me too. She once said that I was the only person she’d done this, so many times, for :o) ‘Earthing’ introduces readers to the landmark discovery that living in contact with the Earth’s natural surface charge – being grounded – naturally […]

Patron Saints of Imperfection

Thursday, 7 November 2019, 16:26.Reading time less than 1 minute.

plus…Sadenia Schwim

The Ravens of Dinefwr is the first in a series of novels-in-progress set in the early 12th century. It follows the dispossessed members of the South Wales House of Dinefwr from their origins in Deheubarth to the centre of the known world, Jerusalem. Come and be my fellow Far-Farer. Come travelling and unravelling with me through Wales, Norway, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Russia, Constantinople, Italy, the Balkans, the Holy Land. Come and Far-Fare through every degree on my 12th century compass.