“ I truly seek a very solitary, simple and primitive life with no special labels attached.  However there must be love in it, and not an a...

Today we are halfway through the year. When I began on this year of pruning out possessions, giving away 366 things, I didn’t expect s...

Where does everyone go on Wednesdays? Alice says statistically it’s a day when people feel low and depressed.  Woeful Wednesday.  Wear...

All right, now I know! For some time I have been turning over and over in my mind the kind of place I would like to live, and at las...

Yesterday we watched one of our favourite movies: The Scarlet Pimpernel .  If you aren't familiar with it, YouTube has it (it's th...

We chose carefully when we moved to our present home.  Hastings (where we live – well, we live in St Leonards but it’s all part of Hasting...

The things people say sometimes linger in my mind so that I go on thinking about them for ages and ages.  During the week I visited wi...