Good in Parts

O One of the joys of being me, here and now, is having friends who know so exactly what is needed to make me smile...S and the girls battled...

I interrupt my unwelcome tidying to bring you this week's Unconscious Mutterings with thanks, as usual, to Luna nina Creepy ::crawly Li...

I have zillions of photos of Holy Week and a good few of our gentle cruise up the Avon, which I really would like to post soon. One day I ma...

Philanthropy :: Quaker Said :: sung Blanks :: fired Tapas :: olives Orgasm :: chocolate Movement :: symphony Detention :: centre...

I've just discovered the perfect game for those whose brains are in pieces as they contemplate the rigours of Holy Week I encountered ...

I spent the 24 hours that ended at 11.00 last night in total silence. Though it was a challenging experience, it was less horribly difficult...

Mostly for the benefit of Mary Beth, who has managed to get through life thus far without encountering the wonder that was the Citroen 2CV.....

The wonderful Dorothy McRae-McMahon once wrote (in " Liturgies for the Journey of Life" ) a creed that I love to use. It begins ...

of what I did on the Bank Holiday. Please note expanses of floor even quite close to the desk. And behold, here is the desk itself, which i...

Currently a tad tearful as LongsufferingClockMaker has just taken Hugger Steward properly back to Cambridge, where he will stay til late Jun...

This has been a blissful week. After all the manic preparations for Candlemas and the Bishop (which sounds as if it might make quite a good ...

I'm still hoping/planning to post some reflections from last week's Chapter residential, but in the meantime I've been tagged so...

are either unpacked, or safely hidden away until the next move, and yesterday we invited the parishes to tea... We're the first people t...

Life just got easier for this family on the move -Hugger Steward passed his driving test today, and has thrown his L plates away joyfully. ...

Those New Year intentions of mine aren't doing too well today...Here I am blogging between the hours of Morning and Evening Prayer, the...

As someone with negative "Completer/Finisher" ratings on Belbin, I've never done particularly well with New Year resolutions.....

Baby Car isn't the only one whose New Year's Day behaviour really mustn't become a habit. I had a very exciting day myself - but...

that beloved Baby Car has not started the New Year as it means to go on. I had to abandon the drive to take Hugger Steward to his New Year...

Sally has had a difficult week, which has made her pause for thought in much the same way that my Indian experience last year made me stop a...

Back in the summer holidays (an unimaginably long time ago on this bleak December day) I posted a picture of our sitting-room covered in a h...