Clothes Swap

What is the best way to round off a wintry weekend at the end of January? Swapping clothes with a dozen other women of excellent taste! This weekend Julia opened her home and her rumpus room to a Clothes Swap Party. The idea is simple and sociable. Invite a group of your friends to come […]

Holiday Highlights

When I last posted here, I had no idea how much of a toll the month ahead was going to take on me – both physically and emotionally. We have had a lovely holiday, and I hope you have too – but there have been some definite challenges. I had anticipated a few dramas as […]

Home Alone

It has taken me a good week to get enough perspective on this event to be able to muse about it publicly. With the winter weather well and truly set in for the duration (it was -11C last week and -7C today, with ice on the INSIDE of our feeble windows both mornings), we have […]

London Bound

I have had a week off. Whew! Largely due to Kazuo coming down with his first big nasty cold, so I’ve had a clingy little guy who isn’t sleeping much (breathing badly and teething at the same time – poor blighter!). But we have had some lovely days at home just practising all the new […]

Sleep Sack

The weather has definitely turned. Kazuo is also getting much bigger and the lovely cool cotton sleeping bags my mother made him for the summer were just not keeping him warm, nor were they giving him the room he needed. We turned on the heating in the interim, especially since my sewing machine chose this […]