Category: Monthly Musing

I’m watching the house martins on the electricity wires by our house. They visit every year, at first just one or two, and by the end of the summer there is a whole flock...

There’s nothing like a funeral to bring a bit of perspective to life, is there? One day you’re grumbling about the heat and whether small daughter is going to any tidying up at all...

I’ve been going to a new yoga class with big daughter. It’s run by one of the teachers whom big daughter has got to know through her university yoga society, and having been to...

“This is how I have heard what you’ve just said, did you mean it to sound like that?” One of the conversations that we have had more than once with both our girls as...

It’s not always easy when you’re rushing around at breakneck speed, but I do try my best to remember that life isn’t always about being in the fast lane but is also about taking...

It’s not quite 9am and I’m sitting on the bedroom floor in a patch of sunlight knitting a sock. There are probably half a dozen things I could be doing instead – sorting out...