March 1st signals the start of spring and the start of the open season for the House with the Blue Door. From this week until the end of December we can enjoy spending as much time as we like at our little chalet. Last Sunday we sat on the decking in double-figure temperatures. Today we … Continue reading Blue skies and chilly temperatures
I've become rather familiar with my bedside cabinet from many nights with my face pressed against its cold smoothness. It provides some surety that I won't end up tumbling out of the bed during the night. 'You'll miss him when he stops' is my familiar refrain to hubs when he complains about our five-year-old coming … Continue reading Three in a bed…
I've got a job interview this morning, so today's preparation has mostly involved mainlining cups of tea and cutting wafer-thin slices of chocolate cake; the slenderness of the slices allows me to convince myself that this obviates the fact I'm eating it at 9.20am as well as wiping out the calorie content. I should be … Continue reading Job interviews and happy places
Review of Rhapsody in Green by Charlotte Mendelson The only limit to your garden lies at the boundaries of your imagination, according to the American landscape designer Thomas D Church, and if you’re an author and a novelist, as Charlotte Mendelson is, then you probably have a pretty expansive imagination. Rhapsody in Green is about … Continue reading Rhapsody in Green
There's a small dog running along the beach in this photo, but it's silhouetted against the black ruched marks in the sand so you can't really see it. The Lincolnshire coast where this photograph was taken is a place where the vast skies meet the river then the sea and early in the morning and … Continue reading Meet me where the sky meets the sea
The House with the Blue Door 