Home comforts

Home comforts

Travelling for work is one of my least favourite things.  Aside from having to fight my homing pigeon instincts you have to work really hard to eat healthily.  All those fast food temptations to make your life easier are the devil’s influence.  Luckily...
Potting delight

Potting delight

After all the blood, sweat and tears to clear up and organise the barn it’s a total pleasure to be in there.  Gone are the days when I take one step in the door and dump stuff wherever there was a space.  Now everything has it’s “proper”...
Fruits and labour

Fruits and labour

Understanding the ins and outs of growing food is seeming less daunting every day.  There are still plenty of surprises, lessons to learn and mistakes to put down to bitter experience but I don’t feel so overwhelmed.  Except when it comes to growing fruit. ...
Chillin’

Chillin’

For all flitting and flirting a butterfly does when it lands and stays perfectly still it radiates calm and beauty.  Whatever they eat for breakfast I could do with some of that.  For all my efforts to keep my stress level low my mind rarely settles and I have...
Unwired

Unwired

Life as we know it was disrupted this week when our beloved telco withdrew its services from us and our neighbours.  I’m not such a virtual junkie that I can’t survive being unwired for fun but when all your client records and systems operate in the...