Category: Monthly Musing

“Have you had any messages today?” “No, not yet – oh wait, I’ve just got one!” Not so small daughter is currently on the other side of the world in Japan, wide awake when...

I’ve been to Leeds today. Not shopping or sightseeing (although I did a few laps of the ring road before I found the car park so I’m not sure if that counts as sightseeing...

“Where are you going to put that?!” We’re in IKEA and not so small daughter has emerged from behind a large stand of houseplants with yet another plant and pot in her hands. “But...

“… and as horrible as it sounds, every one of you sitting here is an offender …” Everyone in the room shifted uncomfortably in their seats – including me. I was at a Motorway...

I’ve just been having a conversation with my husband about mindful knitting.  Or mindless knitting, perhaps, as I think it can be both. We didn’t start off talking about knitting; we were talking about...

Can you remember being a teenager – sixteen, seventeen, eighteen or perhaps even a little bit older – and thinking you knew it all?  That the world was there for the taking and you...