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 ...

The state of the world got a bit too much for me last week but I feel a lot better now. Liz and I had a walk and a picnic arranged for Monda...

“uni solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant”   where they create a desert, they call it peace (Words ascribed by Tacitus to Calgacus, the Brit...

  I’m feeling too angry with Starmer at the moment to write a post. But I have written to Keir Starmer. Dear  Keir Starmer, In asking people...

  The news of the flotilla was the first thing on my mind this morning, and I texted my aging hippie friend in California with a link to the...