ONE DAY AT A TIME

Every day it’s too hot to go outside and the garden has faded into the colours of a bark painting. Thirty-seven degrees at the moment. Inside it’s like we live in the wrong house. The dishes are done, things have been put away. It’s not right. It's not us, but we’ve had to tidy up …

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KITCHEN KARMA

I'm retired. I’ve packed up my home officecaught the bus into town and handed in my swipe card and my work laptop, andmoved across the corridor at home to my writing room again. It’s good to be back. This is the room it took me three weeks to repair, repaint and tidy-up last year. Since …

HERE COMES THE FUN

I’ve never been into numbers (I failed maths at high school) but today’s date of 2.1.21 feels beautiful.   We’ve just got a new kitten after - believe it or not - 21 years with our old cat Eve. Our new kitten is now named Nina. Or No! Nina, more often, or Hell Nina as …