A Letter from Home

For the last few weeks I have been trying to convince myself that it is a privilege to be able to listen to the dawn chorus every morning. ...

The table is much improved. After I made the coffee cake, and planted out some beans and peas into tubs in the garden, I set to work... ...

There's mess and there's clutter and then there's something that defies description. It's not just the dining room tabl...

We woke up to rain. I didn't mind - as we managed to sleep until about 7am. Better than yesterday, when a noisy magpie started rattling ...

This week, my mother is staying in a local care home to give my father a chance to go away and have a week's respite. It sort of works...

This is a favourite... I've always like the M and S roast chicken pies (not to be confused with ordinary chicken pies - there is a dif...