Blog Posts

I have gardened for most of my life by now. For me I first woke up to the possible magic of a garden when I met my husband’s grandmother...

Isn’t food interesting? We all have food that defines high days and holidays. We have comfort food and healthy food, naughty food…well, I do!

I have found my own responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine very interesting. As the rumblings began and grew louder, came closer...

I have not read a Joanna Trollope book for many a long year. Then out of the blue my daughter found one of the newer ones...

I have been thinking about how one can disagree productively. Or at the very least how one can disagree without being destructive.

So…how are things? This last year was for me personally a year of upheaval and change. The shape of my life and my days changed.

How fortunate I was as well for I had been born in a time of giants! One of them is being buried today and my language is being used as part of the service. How extraordinary is that?

Isn’t it lovely when this happens! Even more so when one has had a tough month! But maybe that is when it happens, or more likely, when we actually notice it is happening.

What a joy to talk about one of my very favourite books. It’s a book that is full of meaning for me, changed how I looked at things.

When you say: Home, where is that? What picture comes into your mind? Of course where I am at this moment is home. But I am thinking now of that home of the heart...