Since sending my boxes of book samples off to be photographed a few weeks ago, I’ve been able to tackle a very long list of things that ha...

  Another early start for me at 7am and while I am shovelling down my first coffee of the day, I thought I’d take advantage of the dark morn...

  Thank you to everyone for the kind comments and private messages, which helped so much. A month on and the first few weeks of being in num...

  The past several weeks have been difficult. This is an awkward post to write, considering that I am a very private person and not given to...

Since losing Andy seven years ago, I find that the New Year doesn't really start until after th...

This is how the so-called 'herb patch' looked a couple of weeks ago, still with the plug-ugly plastic coated washing line post f...

So on the hottest day of the year, a couple of weeks ago, we rose at 6.30am, caught a taxi and three trains to the pretty town of Ormsk...