Well after that gloriously wonderful weekend of sun and spring weather, we seem to have returned to the depths of winter, plunged back to rain, grey skies and cold temperatures (here in London, at least). I have to say, it’s put me in a rather bad mood to have been given the promise of sunnier … Continue reading Life recently
Daily life
Spring’s sprung at Wisley
Oh, but I bloody love Spring. The lighter evenings, the bulbs nosing up through the soil, the constant refrain of birdsong. Above all, the sense of possibility in the air, a renewed energy to get up off my arse and just do stuff. Anything! For everything undertaken in Springtime can’t fail to be fun. On … Continue reading Spring’s sprung at Wisley
The garden of my dreams
The sprogs have both been ill, with various bits and pieces, these past few weeks, which means that my days have disappeared in a blur of antibiotics administering, snotty nose wiping, eyedrop dispensing, multiple night-time wakings soothing and generally feeling pretty knackered myself. There's not been much time for blogging. Or thinking. Or brushing my … Continue reading The garden of my dreams
The torture of Sisyphus…
I’ve been in a bit of a blogging slump recently. I won’t bore you with the overall existential ponderings. (Brief summary: but what is my blog for? *Scratches head, spends months trying to come up with the answer*) Coupled with that has just been a basic lack of things to write about. When I started … Continue reading The torture of Sisyphus…
…Postscript
Did you spot the foolish assertions in my last post? Let's revisit for a second. I'd been ill for three days, then working late on my gardening assignment for three days and then, then, I decided it was the perfect time to spend a weekend painting the house. Was that a good idea? No. It … Continue reading …Postscript
On the go…
Hell's bells, what a week it's been. If you follow me on instagram, you will have already seen me moaning on about being ill this time last week. I managed to get mastitis (mastitis! I ask you! With a nine-month-old! That is something to keep you occupied while you have a newborn, isn't it?!) which … Continue reading On the go…
Defining your Signature Style: a few photos
When I first moved from print to online journalism about, oooh, 15 years ago now, everyone was abuzz with the “immediacy of the web.” Print is dead, they raved. (Okay, I might have raved a little bit as well…) Gone are the days of waiting to hear the news the day after it happens in … Continue reading Defining your Signature Style: a few photos
A snowflake bedroom
Hello hello! Happy Tuesday-in-that-odd-bit-between-Christmas-and-New-Year. I hope you had wonderful Christmases and are ready for amazing 2015s. I'd meant to post this in the run-up to Christmas but, of course, what with everything else, I got a bit sidetracked and it never managed to make it out of draft mode. Still, it's not specifically about Christmas, … Continue reading A snowflake bedroom
On the mantel: December
Ahhh, the Christmas mantelpiece. It’s the one I remember most fondly from my childhood. Hundreds of cards jostling for space. An ever-growing nativity scene, ultimately boasting four baby Jesuses made out of clay, the child/sculptor’s name scrawled into the bottom and the constant pestering to my Mum to decide which of us had made the … Continue reading On the mantel: December
On the mantel: November
Phew, I’m posting this in time by the skin of my teeth. But, yes, though my thoughts have been to that big event towards the end of December for a good few weeks now, my diary tells me that it is still (just!) November, and here I am with my November mantel… Of course, I’m … Continue reading On the mantel: November
Wolves in London 