A Letter from Home

  only  vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself  and falls on th' other.... (Macbeth, somewhere) I did get out for a walk after lu...

 'How's your day?' 'Oh, just, dull.' Dull is ok, though; and although the whole day might be dull, there were bright spo...

 I watched the dawn again - quite easy, as it is still dark at 7 am, and we are tending to wake at about 6 which is not our preferred hour. ...

 Woke up to a white morning, no, not snow, but frost. I also woke to the glad thought that I have the whole of this week off, and my diary f...

Christmas Dinner - Lamb tagine with pasta   Christmas Day  As almost everyone else must be saying - was that the weirdest Christmas ever? It...

 I'm about to start (!) sending out the e-cards - and before I did that, here's a card for all the readers of this blog, family, fri...