I cannot believe this, it is snowing again! We have been enjoying the most beautiful warm sunny and dry weather since the last snow storm almost two weeks ago. Okay there were still a few piles of snow dotted about at the bottom of the garden, but really spring was with us. Daffodils, primroses and [...]
I had big plans for today, I should be sharing a recipe with you, I should be snapping photos and working on this new book. I should be doing so many things. I am covered in should and shedding tears again I’m afraid. Yesterday darling little Finzean died in my arms, the photo above was [...]
Dear Mum, I have so much I want to say to you. This is the first time in my life that I have not seen you on this special day. I want to tell you about Idgy’s latest adventures, about how wonderful she is and what a help she has been while I’ve been trapped [...]
Yesterday my lovely friend Sue came to visit. “What do you want me to bring?” she asked beforehand. There was really only one answer to that one, a no-brainer one word answer – cake! Sue rather outdid herself. She duly turned up at noon armed with the biggest bunch of flowers, all yellows and whites, [...]
We all have our own views on the snow. I love it. I love that gorgeous scrunch as your step on to it. I love the sight and feel of the tiny fluffy dancers as they flutter and fall from the sky. I love it’s stillness and muffled silence. I love that it masks the [...]
I have had the best Christmas ever! Idgy and I were lucky enough to be invited to stay with my lovely friends Tracey and Eric and their son Max up in the Scottish highlands. To say we had a good time would be a cruel understatement, no my darlings, we had a ball! Christmas should [...]
