Apart from Tuesday, which was mega-busy with three things in my diary, I’ve had a wonderfully empty week. Or perhaps that should be “clear...

I slept badly last night. From 1- 4 am my mind was whirring and relentless. Yesterday was a refugee hospitality day in Bakewell and there is...

A different future is possible: Quaker organizations share a vision for peace in Palestine and Israel APR 12, 2024     photo by Jon Krieg, A...

I am too distressed to blog about my everyday. All over the world millions of ordinary people can see that a ceasefire in Gaza is urgent and...

What I feel like doing is having a rant about Keir Starmer’s militaristic and right wing agenda, but I am sure you didn’t come here to read ...

My friend Gill and I agreed yesterday that it has been raining here for six months. The Trail is too muddy to ride a bike on, you need welli...

Every morning when I wake up and read the news, the only thing I can think about is the suffering in Gaza: it really distresses me. This is ...

Wensleydale has been on my mind this week. I always associate Easter with going  to stay with my parents at their home in Aysgarth. Daffodil...

  Todays letter to my MP:

How to blog about domestic life when the UN Security Council finally calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, and the Israelis ignore it and bomb a ho...

We got a new oil tank this week. Our old one was 28 years old and they do decay over time, and we didn’t want to be in the position in the n...

It was a wise decision not to blog when I was ill. It was a virus - not a matter of life and death, though being the Prima Donna I am I thou...