Christmas Day, Boxing Day and more

At the risk of sounding like the BBC, it was great having everyone home for Christmas.  For once, Jack's train from Bristol wasn't c...

Christmas Eve

Freezing temperatures, snow and associated travel problems and illness have presented us with a few challenges in the run up to Christmas th...

Lighting a candle on the winter solstice

Few symbols offer more comfort than a candle blazing in the dark, especially in the bleak mid-winter when everything is blanketed with snow ...

snowed in...and a change of plan

A conundrum for you: The christmas tree is is the garden and we want to bring it inside.  However... The wellies and spade are in the garden...

18 months and still going strong

I'm glad you can't see me as I write.  Believe me, you would be frightened.  I look (and feel) like I've gone six rounds in the ...

you think everything is going OK, then......

Just when we thought we were making good progress on Christmas preparations, I have succumbed to an infection which has put me on a diet of ...

Christmas comes early!

The approach to Steve's assessment is always an anxious period.  This time it has coincided with the run up to Christmas and a very inte...

Oh happy day :-)

There are some days when things seem to go right. This looks like being one of them!  OK - nothing life changing, but the cumulative effect ...

Telling it her own words....

Top right you will find a link to Mavis Nye's blog.  Mavis developed mesothelioma as a result of washing her husband's clothes, not ...

Feeling rather festive!

We have spent the last few days getting into the festive spirit in Brussels (the city not the vegetable) where we stayed with Angela, a frie...