Daydreaming out of my rainy office window last week, it struck me how different the view became when I simply shifted my focus. In one moment, the raindrops on the window stood out, strong and clear, but with glimpses of the scene and colours beyond. In the next, the view came into focus and the…
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Last week’s guilty pleasure was bindweed. This week, it’s Vampire Diaries. I blame Ian Somerhalder and his tongue-in-cheek charismatic portrayal of Damon the ‘bad’ bloodsucking brother, or maybe it’s just the Goth in me that made those annual treks to Whitby… home of the original vampire story. The watered-down Netflix version of events is brimming…
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My grandmother was called Daisy. She grew up in a time where old-fashioned flower names were in vogue, and when it felt like every meadow was bursting with daisy chains just waiting to be made. How fitting that the English daisy (Bellis perennis) symbolises innocence and that these blooms were often paired with primroses as…
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Living with an 11-month Maine Coon kitten, Walter, who experiences his world by chasing and tasting everything in his path, makes you very aware of what’s an accident just waiting to happen! Yesterday, relaxing with my book, with Walter bouncing around the meadow lawn ‘insect bothering’, I noticed a little plant growing in a patio…
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I’m glad to see that menopause is making it in to the mainstream and that real conversations are happening about something that – quite frankly – shouldn’t be a taboo! After a very long wait, I finally got to meet menopause face-to-face this year, and it’s a slippery little sucker. It tripped me up –…
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