Advent.

1. Bake a Gateau Breton and eat it with the first  decent (the smaller the better) strawberries of the season. 2. Paint your broom handle the colour of an Old Cotswold Legbar Hens egg.  (And watch the hencam while you are there!) 3. Fold a pretty teatowel in half and sew together. Make half inch…

Todays page in Simple Abundance  urges us to re-discover poetry, both so that we should experience our own view of the world through someone else’s eyes and so that we can for a moment taste emotions we may have forgotton through an art form which in my opinion has no equal. While racking my brains…

I have sinusitis. I feel like I’ve gone three rounds with an eniment Hollywood plastic surgeon without the joy of crow free eyes and my very own trout pout. It is making me cross and a teeny bit crazy. I sat in Tesco’s car park yesterday reading a poetry book and wondering whether I’d finally…