I’ve been out spending time in our much-neglected garden today. I must admit a deepening sense of defeat at times with our horsetail-ridden clay bed.
A week ago the soil was still too wet to handle …

This month I have been inspired by my cyber friend Melissa to take part in her Random Acts of Kindness challenge.
This is something that has always been close to my heart. I love how the …

Yesterday afternoon Little Miss Green came to see me with a grin so huge I felt her cheeks would burst. Her eyes were sparkling and she just couldn’t control her absolute joy as it seeped …

I laughed my way through an amazing thread this week, over at MSE about unusual things people had sold on eBay. It bought true meaning to ‘one mans trash is another’s treasure’.

Spring is rather like a birthing rite. There are so many conflicting energies. It is a transition. The simplest and most noticeable conflict is with the weather. One day we wear shorts, t-shirts and …

I’m pretty good at this as my circumstances tend to force me to be anyway! Again, I tend to do really well for a while, and then just get something without thinking.
I still stand by …

Oh dear! Here’s another one where I fell at the first gate! See, there’s this thing with me. I’m a starter and not much of a finisher. At school I could run the 200 metres …

I have the ultimate picture to make you feel so much better about the state of your home to the left here. Yes, this is my ‘study’ before these challenges took place! Shocking, eh?
I may …

My brain is overloaded! Do you ever have times when you feel really overwhelmed with everything? I feel like that at the moment and I’m noticing those first spiralling motions of depression. Better to nip …

Now this I love. I love it when I have an idea to do something and find people across the world thinking the exact same thing.
Once April arrives, the first spring flowers have been and …