In this life

This is what the garden looked like this morning... ... and this is what it looked like an hour ago. Yes, it's still snowing. I know th...

It's still very cold. The snow has melted a bit, but not much. This confirms my mother's scepticism about global warming. Son has g...

We're looking after Daughter 1 and Son-in-Law's guinea pigs while they're down south with his family. The lad worries about the...

Well, it's still snowy. This was Edinburgh Castle yesterday. I iced the cakes last night: one for my mother... ... and one for us. (D...

It's snowy - unusually for us - and rather cold. One more day of college before the holidays; rather than working, I would really prefe...

What were you doing precisely 42 years ago tonight? Well, nothing in the case of my bloggy friends who hadn't got around to being born ...

I really enjoyed those little snapshots of the commenters' lives - thank you so much for them. A sort of Comment-Twitter. From a studen...

I half-decorated the Christmas tree this afternoon but then decided that it was more urgent to write cards and letters. (Above is last year...

As I rush from class to class, I often hear snatches of conversation from students going in the opposite direction. This week, for example: ...

I've headed this with a picture of the garden in August to give myself hope that it might ever look like this again. At the moment it...

I do not see why I should have to be a person. It would be so much more restful to be a cat. It's 10.20 on Sunday night and this is the...

My dear Daughter 2, being younger and more intelligent than I, has pointed out that Linds's quilt (no! it's MY quilt) goes equally ...

I've had a busy week, out every night (rather boring church meeting, teaching evening class, choir, meal out with friends, printing chur...

Edited to add: Goodness, an unsuspected British/American language problem in my title. My study wall, Thimbleanna, is the wall of the room i...

This is what Daughter 2's bed looked like on Sunday night. Empty. I took this maudlin photo of it. And tonight? She's asleep in it. ...

I should point out that she also loves her dad. I just happened to get the sign (see previous post) - in fact, she took the photo on my cam...