I am back in that dark place of shocked and tortured incredulity that the world can stand by while a so-called civilised country, a country ...

One month from today I shall be exhibiting and selling my paintings and cards in the Bonsall Art Trail. It's to be held in the Peak Dist...

There is something entrancing about toddlers.  Yesterday afternoon our youngest granddaughter, MsX, came to visit. She is 18 months old and ...

  All I will say about the election is this: I am sure we have already all made up our minds who we are going to vote for, so can we have ra...

  I have a vivid memory of my father asking me to cut the bluebells back in his garden. I didn’t use  sheers, I pulled the dead stems - whic...

For some reason, the night before I came home from Belgium I managed only 5 hours of sleep, so I was pretty wrecked when Pete dropped me off...

  I have been staying with my brother Pete  at his home in Belgium, in the town of Genval, which has a very pretty lake and is within a few ...

 

Every morning I look online at the front pages of all the newspapers, and while the majority of them have serious stories, the Daily Star al...

  It’s here! It’s come! It’s finally arrived! The leaves on the lime trees across the road are out  - at last - and our copper beeches are f...

 

  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...