The Quilt Quine

It has been a funny old week and I was not thrilled when I bent down to listen to an answer phone message and my eyeball was almost...

I was absolutely worn out after spending part of Sunday helping Nell to learn how to ride a bike. She is almost 10 and just never learn...

I enjoyed the two really good speakers at the QGBI Region 16 day in Perth on Saturday. Judi Mendelssohn gave an amusing talk on how s...

It is all very well waking up at 4am with a whirl of things to be done on your mind but if you are too tired to get up and so...

Determinedly, I sat in front of my laptop on Monday and made a start on my Ebook. I drafted an overview and then fleshed out wh...

For the first time in years I had to go to a school staff meeting before the start of term and I was horrified to discover that...

It was to be expected that the past week would be a bit of an anti-climax after FOQ along with the feeling of dread as the new ...

I seemed to be so organised with my packing for my trip to Birmingham that I decided that I had so much spare tim...

The most boring part of a holiday must be sorting out the laundry and putting away all of the camping gear. No-one felt like doin...

We made an early start on Tuesday for our epic 12-hour road trip to Bath and WOMAD.  Plenty of sweets and stops helped to pass ...

    We have been enjoying a Scottish heatwave which is wonderful but it has been difficult to get anything done. I wondered what I had...

The summer holidays got off to a good start with a week of unusually lovely weather. It has probably been 10 years since we had s...

It was both a long and a short week as we hurtled towards the summer holidays. It was so cold, miserable and like November on...