saying goodbye

I never made it down to Dorset as a child. Having grown up in the Midlands, with Yorkshire parents, the place wasn’t even on our radar. We always went North, to the windswept Lincolnshire coast, or to my parents’ Yorkshire … Continue reading

family album

Perhaps one of the best things I have inherited is my Nanna’s postcard album. I remembered it the other day. It’s one of those things, like my tin collection, that I’m not really sure what to do with. It sits in … Continue reading

unearthed

As you may have gathered, although I like things to look nice, I am not hugely tidy. And whilst the house was full of people, I was even less so. This was partly down to not wanting to waste any … Continue reading

thoroughly puzzled

When I was a child, it was a family tradition that my mum always got a jigsaw for Christmas. There were two living rooms in our house. The back room, always referred to as the “Dining Room” (though we actually … Continue reading

ten good things…?

List posts are very popular in the blogging and magazine worlds at the moment, aren’t they? Wherever you look it’s “Twenty Best….” this, and “Top Ten…” that. I even spotted recently that some people are doing a “100 happy days” … Continue reading

deadline

I work best to deadlines. I am one of those people who, procrastinator that I am, needs some kind of fixed point in time to pin my efforts to. Something to work toward, to aim for, to plan around. I often … Continue reading