In the past few weeks I have seen a number of comments about Facebook and blogging, with a couple of people abandoning Facebook rather than ...

Angel needs to build a small portfolio of photos to demonstrate that she should be given a place on the photography course she wants to take...

1. What is happening to the weather? This is the third winter running with snow heavy enough to cause travel chaos, and this year it hit in...

Thirteen tracks from my Advent and Christmas playlist: 1. Christ is Born a Child on Earth (Patricia Spero, from Celtic Christmas Harp ) ...

Housework has been hit and miss - actually rather more miss than hit - for the last few weeks. Today I had a free morning and no excuses, so...

First a note for anyone outside the UK who isn't familiar with the English school system (I say English rather than British because I th...

Outside My Window  ... winter. Deep frost this morning, and the car was showing minus 5 (low 20s farenheit). There was a light dusting of sn...

Cherub greeted the news that we would get the the Nativity set out today with bouncing and squeals of excitement. "The Nativity set! Th...

I have had the idea of wrapping up a book for each day of Advent filed away in my head for a while now, and I have finally taken the plunge ...

Outside My Window  ... a dull damp morning. Heading into a cold snap later this week, with snow forecast. I am thinking  ... whether there ...

The quickest of quick takes today, for reasons that will be apparent. Seven things added in to our usual busy routine between now and nex...

Outside My Window  ... Frosted November. Monday morning dawns foggy and unappealing. (And I have an inexplicable urge to write haiku!) I ...

1. First, an update on my Mum ... she had her op - finally! - and seems to me to be doing pretty well. Despite post-operative pain and som...

November 11th is the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours (it is also Armistice Day, but that is another story ), so here are thirteen bits of...

Two months in and I am still very happy with Cherub's school experience ... and more importantly, she is happy too. I love the set up in...

Outside My Window  ... disgusting weather. Six degrees (45 deg F), dark grey skies, wet and windy. Forecast to stay this way all day. Autumn...

Towards the end of our second day in Budapest we stumbled across this fairytale castle in the City Park: Vajdahunyad Castle was originall...

Please to remember the Fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot. We know no reason why Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot. A...

Thirteen favourite autumn things (ignoring the bits I don't like about the season. Dark evenings, I will not let you get me down!): 1....

Twenty years after the fall of communism the old regime is still visible in parts of Budapest. Some areas are immaculate and very western lo...