This week’s small pleasures 505

I don’t know about you, but the news is becoming more and more depressing in so many ways. At least…

Wordless Wednesday: Moomin

Regular readers will have seen many of our Moomin mugs featuring in blog posts over the years. I finally got…

Each week I sit down to review the good things that have happened. Sometimes they are really little things like…

Sometimes we can forget that beauty is right there on our doorstep. Hidden away in a corner of the suburb…

We woke up on Sunday morning to a thick, crisp white layer of frost covering plants, houses and cars. Where…

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would talk about the month past, about the fabulous meal…

This week was definitely one that improved as it went along, from feeling pretty grotty at the start, to making…

The theme this month seemed easy: go to your bookshelf, pick out the cookbook you most recently purchased (or borrowed),…

Well, what started out as a good week with an exhibition, sunshine and tickets for the ballet, ended with me…

The past month’s reading has been a real mix of highs and lows. It started well, and ended well, and…