In this life

It's definitely becoming more springlike around here, as you can see from my little vaseful of flowers from the garden. Son ...

We seem to have a lot of pictures like this: Sirius just cuddling in comfortably. He was an instant purrer - one touch and the rumbling b...

We had to have our lovely, tolerant, gentle cat Sirius put to sleep on Monday. The vet agreed that he had after all been s...

I don't know why Granddaughter looks orange here - she isn't. But she's very smiley. And hand-wavey. Grandson's recen...

When we were in the Isle of Man last year (as bloggy friends with long memories might recall) I bought a kit to make the front of a patch...

Mr L, Daughter 2 and I went to visit Son and Daughter-in-Law yesterday. We had rather a big (though delicious) lunch out and then climbed...

Daughter 2 came home for a meeting, and thus a long weekend with us. She set out from London on the 7.30 pm train on Wednesday and was du...

Well, it's not often that I have a sewing project to show off, so here's something I made yesterday. What is it? Or rather, wha...

Two random photos of the littlies for the Worcester side of the family, who look at the blog for this reason alone. Isn't Grandson ge...

It's been an awful week for various of our friends: one sudden death, two serious cancer diagnoses, one horrible family problem - all...

Feeling a bit dim tonight with nothing much to say except - gosh, how can it be February already and hadn't I better do something use...

Grandson put a little man in the back of a Duplo trailer. "Is he sleeping," asked Daughter 1, "or just resting?" He...

I'm always interested in the idea of home - the importance of having a home and in the way we have of making our homes into individu...

Daughter 1 was getting her eyes tested. The grandchildren and I went for a little walk in Princes Street Gardens while she did so. "...