In this life

Happy Hallowe'en. When I was a little girl, Hallowe'en was certainly celebrated (I rather think it was a Scottish thing more th...

We were supposed to be going with the Edinburgh family to see Son, Daughter-in-Law and Granddaughter the Younger, but Grandson and Gran...

Granddaughter the Youngest seems to be doing well and the London family is settling into familyhood.  Daughter 2 wanted to be sent...

Well, Granddaughter the Youngest has arrived, 5 days early, and we've been down in London helping out a bit. Obviously, she...

It's been a busy old week - not with anything unusual, but I feel the world's had enough of unusual things recently. On Sunday I ...

We went to a wonderful exhibition on Saturday at the City Art Centre of various rather charmingly random objects from different city col...

When you're getting on a bit, you might (well, I might) have a tendency to think: Ah, autumn! The sere and yellow! Death isn't fa...

On Saturday we drove up north to visit Son, Daughter-in-Law and Granddaughter-the-Younger. Daughter 1, Grandson and Granddaughter the Elder ...

We've just come back from five days in Stockholm. Fortunately almost everyone in Sweden speaks amazing English. Our Swedish is, ala...