Busy with all the usual ’round here, but also making plans for some upcoming travel, short trips and longer ones, regional road-trips and trans-Atlantic flights. But close to home, some simple pleasures for the days when I need to keep it easy. . . Click through to find more (a very good, very easy chocolate cake recipe; a TV series to veg in front of; some music to get your toes tapping
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Everything from yellow boots to Italian castles to young French men preening to a favourite What I Wore. . . filling the pages of my messy sketch journal, I end up with a book of memories. Want a peek? Just click through. . .
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When her oldest son moved on to university university five years ago, this amateur quilter (with years of experience as a Nursing Sister) began dreaming of building a new career based on her passion. Since then, she’s completed a rigorous City and Guilds course, faced a number of hurdles thrown up by life in general and Covid-19 in particular. But she launched her new business this winter and agreed to an interview (via email) which I’m very happy to present to you. Click through to read on. . .
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Over a lifetime, I’ve learned how to balance a variety of competing interests and activities, so that I maintain skills and continue to enjoy the most important without feeling overloaded. But in retirement as in my former “working life,” that balance and daily or weekly rhythm can get disrupted by certain elements on the calendar. January, for example. . .
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These early days of January can be a challenge, and sometimes we just want to go back to bed. I was dreaming of luxurious loungewear, such as I’d seen in a Paris shop window. And he was on a Mission to buy me cozy pyjamas. . . with some comic results. Read on. . .
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