The last few years I have chosen a word to guide me, inspire me and remind me through out the year. A gentle nudge towards what I am hoping ...

Despite a rather late night ... ok ok - well it was New Year's Eve and we did have a cracking cheese board and sticky toffee pudding to ...

Days of driech weather have abounded, low cloud and wind tossed trees. Puddles and reflections, mud and slush. It has been, so far, a damp a...

During this gentle nothingness that Twixtmas seems to hold, there is a definite change in the winds, a sharp wintery scent in the air, the n...

There's been snow over night - a soft wet slush and the garden is full of the sound of rain dripping and sloppy snow dropping off the tr...

A chilly walk to deliver the last of the village cards. The lighting of the Swedish Angel chimes and cooling of the yule cake  Finishing off...

Idly, a few nights ago, I came across a rather beautifully (probably professionally) gingerbread 'wreath' covered in iced gingerbrea...