Well, I finished reading The Gifts of Winter. The odd thing was that while I was reading it I felt more cheerful, but now I have finished it...

  I’ve watched four Nora Ephron films in the last two weeks. Four!  Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, When Harry Met Sally, and  Julie ...

  I read more in the winter, and having finished ‘Any Human Heart’ and voted it the best book I read last year, I started on Elif Shafak’s ‘...

Liz and I had our New Year picnic on Stanton Moor today. After days of drab grey weather, the sun shone, and we managed to keep warm despite...

  For some reason, I am finding it impossible to paint. There is nothing that inspires me. I have been looking at photos and all kinds of im...

  Well, if you’re 76 and you have only four hours sleep on Christmas Eve (for no reason whatsoever) you are not best set up to cook numerous...

Dave is in the depths of his annual Yuletide gloom but has nevertheless made me another stonking Christmas “card.” I love it.  The one he ma...

Yesterday, Dave and I went to see the-family-member-who-declines-to-be-named, the lovely Jaine, and three year old MsX. They’d got a new tel...

What are you reading at the moment? I’m reading less news and more fiction. I am currently engrossed in - and loving - Any Human Heart by Wi...

Two weeks ago I read through the blog posts I have written this year and assessed that roughly 75% of them were about Gaza, or mentioned Gaz...

  I’m back because we had our Quaker Meeting carols last evening and the theme was Peace on Earth and there were some wonderful readings. Th...

The news from Hepworth Towers is that I was sitting in bed one morning reading last week, when a loud crash made me jump and look up and I s...

  A few weeks ago when I was moaning to Chrissie about the state of the world, and how depressed it made me, she said I should stop reading ...

  I’ve been ill and am now on the mend and this is the briefest of posts. I was just texting Liz and when I re-read the text to check for ty...

  I am feeling off colour today with something that I know will pass, but it means I am still in bed at 9 a.m. despite the lovely bright sky...

  I am horrified by the proposed new asylum policies of our heartless government. I’d like that to go on record. But today I am thinking abo...