I was half-way through a post on a new-to-me house and its five fragrances when I realised I simply wasn’t going to have enough time with the perfumes to say something remotely useful yet. So, that will wait another week.… Continue Reading
Happy Easter weekend. Hope you got a lot of chocolate if that’s your thing. Weather’s been lovely last few days, but we’re about to enter a short period of cold. Annoying. Mother Nature not cooperating. Plants are cheerful and doing… Continue Reading
It was a busy week, but somehow I lacked inspiration. Sometimes being really busy does that – you just go from one thing to the next and nothing sticks. Much got done but I reached the weekend wanting something to… Continue Reading
The vernal equinox has to be one of my favourite days of the year. Doesn’t matter if it’s rain or shine – always makes me happy to mark the shift from winter to spring. The weather here has turned much… Continue Reading
It’s been all over the media that we’ve been in a pandemic for a year now (though the virus was likely floating around – and probably in a lot of places, it seems – for significantly longer than that). A… Continue Reading
The sun’s out. It’s cold, and will be for a couple more days, but then it looks like maybe, just maybe, we’ll start seeing the beginning of spring. Certainly, the spring flowers continue to do their thing, but I don’t… Continue Reading
I realise the groundhog said six more weeks of winter. Thankfully, however, we seem to have moved into a transition phase. It’s been sunny for several days (and should continue to be for at least the next two weeks) and… Continue Reading