Dear Man of Garbage, bookworm, Happy Father's Day from the blue-eyed ones, And good luck finding the time to get through th...

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week.  Via  Soulemama

We've returned from a long journey south to visit our snow-loving cousins for the last hurrah of the ski season. It almost didn...

Fernando has been a hit with the littles. He spent a night resting on a cushion beside Lola, with a very small blanket placed tenderly ov...

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week.  Via  Soulemama

The arrival in my mailbox of a new book yesterday has meant that joining in this week's Yarn Along is imperative. Other reading has bee...

Sometime over the weekend, this little blog turned one. That's one year since I started posting here regularly (I had a bit of a false ...

I had to give something out of this remarkable book a go. The Fluffy Draught Stopper was tempting, as was the Fur Rat Door Stop. In the en...

Back for the Yarn Along again this week. I neither knit nor read fast enough to have something new on a weekly basis, so it's probably...

Last week's pear and almond tart was a triumph. A very hastily consumed triumph. And there was a little tub of leftover frangipane in t...