There are days when all it takes to make me happy is an email.  Dear Lulu, Just to let you know that I have finished running the world (for the time being) from Madagascar, and will be returning home to you and ours, tomorrow. Best...

“Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.” Og Mandino Just in case it looks like this blog is going to become all whinging or whining. Or perhaps something like the local newspaper for the...

“By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.”  Thomas Moore “A little bit chatty” was written on the first report card that Miss Eight...

Too full of cookies and goose to write anything worth reading, so I will just give you a photo post.  My camera is playing up, at least the Macro seems to be doing something weird, so they are not great, but you get the picture. Went for a walk...

Being a mix of Australian and German, the whole deal with Santa, Nikolaus, Weihnachtsmann, Kristkind, etc has always been messy. So we just enjoy ALL the Big Guys in Red. The first is coming tonight. He sometimes brings a mate… a dark...