Christie posted about taking stock in this way - not something I'd done before. Last year was a tricky year, and while this year hasn't been without its challenges already, it has a fresh feel to it - so now felt a good time for a review of sorts. As I'm not a fan of... Continue Reading →

To balance my nutty neighbour tales, let me tell you why we love it here. Standing in our garden, you can see the church spire just three houses down the road. The church is old - Middle Ages old - although significantly restored, and every Sunday morning at 10am, we get to enjoy the Church... Continue Reading →

There's a cooking show we watch where the presenters regularly reference enjoying a Negroni. I'm a fairly old fashioned girl at heart about a cocktail (and yes, an Old Fashioned is also one of a small handful of cocktails I'd select on those occasions when cocktail drinking is the order of the day) but as... Continue Reading →

Late last year, I realised that my body had changed shape, despite my weight remaining the same. Now I know, of course, that bodies change as they age, but genuinely did not expect that a change in shape could be anything other than weight related. So, this realisation was - as they say - a... Continue Reading →