Like, literally. This post goes out on Tuesday 27th August, the day after the last summer bank holiday… last bank holiday, indeed, until Christmas! (except for the Scots, with St Andrew’s Day. Sensible people chose a winter saint to celebrate). For many of us, the holidays (dictated by family and school) are behind us. A […]
I had a lovely summer reading anything and everything I fancied, but one day last week I sat in a cosy cafe sipping a chai and had a hankering to plan some proper Autumn reading. Autumn reading lists can be very popular: Pinterest always has a few hanging around (hopefully this will join then, eventually!) […]
Yes, September lies around the corner promising golden days of sunshine, gaudy trees in autumn finery and…. a return to the daily cycles of work, school, life and even more life. Time, again, to summon up the forces of gratitude and contentment against a sea of disappointment and dismay (definitely disappointment with the weather, usually. […]
I have had a really good summer. I had a couple of short breaks, a week in Yorkshire and spent quite a few hours at work, getting ahead on a couple of projects and planning a week away in September. It’s been bliss. But since June 21st I have not been a regular, daily or […]
In roughly a week’s time I will have been off Social (Instagram, Facebook, X, writing regularly on the blog) for about 2 months. It’s been an interesting experiment in what my relationship to electronic media is really like. How much did I rely on it for news and keeping up to date with friends and […]