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...

How lucky am I to live in a cosy house with little risk of flooding. This is what I was thinking last night, as we sat by the fire doing a c...

You are in an online virtual clothing shop and you don’t know where all the different departments are. You have six minutes to get yourself ...

  Yesterday when I woke up my joints ached and I felt old and gruesome, but the sun was shining and I had to go to Bakewell on errands, so I...

  I was looking for something in my filing cabinet yesterday for something I had put in a special place because it was important and I didn’...

There are still leaves on the copper beeches in our garden, and the nasturtiums and marigolds cling on in one’s and twos, all because we sti...

I recently told you what telly I was watching, and I want to inform Marmee (who commented on the blog post) that she shouldn’t feel bad that...

Dave and I recently visited old friends who have bought four of my paintings in the past, and seeing the paintings again, displayed in someo...

I am on the mailing list of Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT)  and this morning I received their statement on the ceasefire As I am of ...