This week’s small pleasures #465

Is it really only just over 6 weeks until Christmas? Just so hard to believe.

This week’s small pleasures #447

Well….where to start? The positives: I only had to work two days, I had my birthday, read 2 books on … More

We’ll start today’s post with the good news that I don’t need to wear the moon boot any more. Of … More

What a week! I had been to a work meeting in town on Tuesday afternoon, and as I came out … More

The sun shone today, which always lifts the spirits. We have had such a lousy summer, that any glimmer of … More

Christmas cooking is so easy in this household. We celebrate Christmas Eve, as does most of Europe, and while Poland … More

As we were away for the weekend, and with yesterday being my last French lesson of this term, (when dinner … More

So the shortest day has now passed for us in the Southern Hemisphere, and the days will gradually begin to … More

Here we are at the last day of May, the last day of autumn and almost half way through the … More

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would talk about baking, about this fantastic seasonally appropriate apple … More