On balance, in our recent move, more things seem to have gone astray than we had bargained for. The first batch of shelves get fixed to the walls tomorrow so the boxes of books currently filling the living room can be unpacked then – so here’s hoping we shall be a bit nearer being able […]

Just under two weeks ago this cascade of white wisteria greeted us as we looked out of daughter no 1’s windows into the garden. Last week as the vicar and I left London, it was still lovely though dropped petals were accumulating beneath it like over abundant confetti. On Sunday, I returned to London to […]