A Letter from Home

It was too hot to do anything energetic today. But painting (watercolours, not walls) is a gentle activity. Today I learned to do skies ...

There's a steady thunk of tennis balls, interspersed with unintelligible shouts from the line judges going on behind me, as two ...

It is still very hot. The young lettuce plants (on the right, the mauve flowers are self-seeded nemesia) are not going to make it; Bu...

Yup - the sunny spell continues. The grass verges along our road are bleached yellow, we are carting buckets and watering cans of water up a...

Starting from last night, indeed; to Ightam Mote for " A Theatrical Event, talked, and themed meal " on the subject of John Singer...

Pinch, punch, end of the month... no, I am a day early for that rhyme... It is Saturday afternoon, I have taught piano lessons to seven ...