Much travelling to see family in December left us perfectly happy to be on our own to see in the New Year. We even practised switching off of the TV to sit companionably side by side reading books. Alice Thomson in The  Times writes that last year she had a target of reading a book […]

Sometimes life just takes over and, unsurprisingly, Christmas has once more been one of those times. Fortunate to be away for Christmas, we hadn’t had to lay in siege stocks of food, deck the house with boughs of greenery nor provide house room for  copious amounts of wrapping paper, sellotape , etc. Yet still did […]