This morning, the last day of February, we have snow on the limestone edge behind the house, and t he sun has been playing hide and seek s...

When I was staying with Isaac and Wendy in Boulder over Christmas I got very attached to their Alexa, and as soon as I got home I tried to p...

You could say that February has been a minor bete noire in my writing - both in the blog and in the books. For example.... 'February...

Perhaps I should begin by saying that I didn't go into town to see La La Land . I went to see Manchester by the Sea . However, somethin...

Some people, kind people, don't understand that the way to be a friend is to sit alongside a sad person, and to accept their feelings.....

I went to a party last night. It was for a friend who was turning 70. His 'kids' had planned the surprise party with exquisite care...

February is bleak and dreary out here in the sticks. We have fog, frost, rain, snow, khaki fields and mud. I'm glad I'm not a sheep...

I went to a Quaker conference about forced migration at the weekend and I am still processing it. The accommodation was good, the people we...

A friend of mine, who has more or less the same taste in fiction as me, reminded me last week that a book I'd recommended to her had up...

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I've been thinking about what I wrote in the last post and I've changed my mind. I am not going to limit what I read about Trump. I...

Every morning on waking I look at the iPad for messages or photos from my family, then emails from anyone else, and then I look at the news...

I was driving behind a white van in Bakewell last week. The initials F.M.E. were printed in bold on the back of the van along with the slog...

We had a five minute interview about the Bridges Not Walls banner on Radio Derby on Friday January 20th on the Ian Skye programme. If you w...

BAKEWELL FOOTBRIDGE, fixing the banner Tower Bridge, London Westminster Bridge, London Vauxhall Bridge, L...

It's been busy here. Thankfully I am better from the shingles. It was obviously a mild dose, or that anti-viral drug was super powerful...

On my penultimate day in Boulder I woke up with three insect bites in a row on the edge of my jawbone. It looked as though a spider had land...

When Zoe and Isaac were little, we had a Ladybird book of nursery rhymes in which appeared Goosey Goosey Gander - do you remember it? - ...