We have a new addition to our menagerie. Meet Baxter.He's such a cutie! Baxter is my Auntie Horse Whisperers furbaby, but has come to live with us for a while. Baxter loves cuddles. Baxter doesn't love thunderstorms. This is a classic unhappy Baxter during a thunderstorm. He was shaking like a leaf!Baxter and 8Track play jokes on each other. 8Track jumps out of doorways to jumpscare ..read more

I recently received an email from someone that simply had the heading "Where are you?"  (thanks for the virtual poke Lorraine!)I never went anywhere. I just got a bit buried in all of the life stuff. I turned 50 in October. Vintage!!Gee that's a shit number!I have had quite a few ladies older than me tell me things like, "Oh you're still a baby!", or "Pffft! That's nothing! I'm ..read more

 Hello again!I've had a really busy past couple of weeks. How has yours been? It feels like life is saying: "Had a few weeks holiday, did you? Feeling kind of relaxed now, are you? Let's give you a little kick up the bum..."It is probably rather indulgent of me to write all these posts just for one trip, but so much happened! Everyday was packed full of places and things and smells and all of the ..read more

 My last post was huge. Well it was a huge week! I think of it as one whole chapter and found it tricky trying to break it up. I'm not really a professional writer type person so I'm sure someone else could have done it better. But it's out there now for me to look at, and read and remember how amazing and overwhelming it all was.If you're jumping in now and haven't caught  up with the first bits ..read more

Welcome back to the 3rd instalment of 'I went on a little holiday'. It really wasn't a little holiday though. A holiday that involves 25 hours of plane travel & leaves you drained with cankles bigger than truck tires is never 'little'.So it was a biggish holiday. But not for nothing would I fly to the other side of the planet. I was here to finally experience my favourite annual event in the ..read more

 So the other day in part 1 of my little holiday recap, I finished up with the 1000 piece puzzle-worthy cottages near Cambridge.When I woke up bright and early the next morning, I took a little walk down the road and saw my first ever in real life robin singing in a tree. I watched it for a minute or so and listened to it chirping or tweeting or whatever but instead of anything profound or ..read more

We have just returned from a holiday.It was quite a big holiday for us. We even left the kids behind. Aren't we terrible! It was actually our first real holiday away together.I borrowed Sonofagun No.1's giant suitcase which he purchased a few months ago for a trip to Japan. I wanted to buy a cheap slipcover to protect it and to help it stand out on the baggage trolley.The Bear told me that as I ..read more

We've been busy bees.A zillion years ago the Bear and I both did woodworking in high school together. Not exactly 'together'- together but we were in the same class. We exchanged hot, sweaty, teenage glances at each other across the lathes and benches while learning how to make notepad holders, footstools and boxes.Once school was done, the Bear continued to tinker with occasional woody projects ..read more

Summer so far has been so very busy and wonderful.I hope you had a fantastic Christmas in your part of the world.I'm huge on Christmas. The tree was up in November. I'm one of those people.The way I see it is as the chief Xmas organiser, present purchaser, organiser of the xmas day things and end of year function coordinator, I would miss out on the wonderful xmassy feeling. So I start early to ..read more

For years I have wanted the Xmas Wreath Of My Dreams. Something sumptious and ridiculously Xmassy and gorgeous to hang out on the front door.But I didn't really know what that was.Our current Xmas wreath is one of those old fake pine needle ones which looks a bit boring.Then I found this on the Pinterest.Isn't is ridiculously gorgeous?  The pin leads to a random website with a list of Xmas Wreath ..read more