She tells me to imagine a well, or a fishpond, Julia Cameron in her book, ‘The Artist’s Way’. There are big fish, little fish, fat fish,...

A little seed A little soil A little sweat A little toil A little waiting A little weeding A little compost A little feeding A little...

I was called up for jury service the other week. It was a letter with a demand that I show up at the county court, and a threat that if I...

Three o’clock in the morning and a moment of wakefulness, the phone was next to the pillow. I end my day listening to classical music. I...

There is not one of us who has not thought very carefully about what brings satisfaction in life. If life really is really like a box of...

I confess that I am not the green-fingered gardener I would like to be. It’s all about patience, isn’t it? You plant things and you wait,...

Our next-door neighbours are moving. There is a ‘Sold’ sign in the corner of the garden. It just appeared there one day, ‘For Sale’ then...

My husband’s keys, in his hand, he says, don’t work. They neither lock or unlock the front or the back door, he says. Sometimes he cannot...

I call this my serial killer face. It was taken in a passport photo booth a year or two ago. It was specified that I wasn’t to smile, and...

‘First drink of the day - Lemsip. I am missing the atttentative waiter at my beck and call. Guests might take the towels as a souvenir -...

Looking down from a high branch in a bare winter tree we see a lamb. An unkindness of ravens they call us and it’s an earned name. We are...

My husband and I play a game every so often. We introduced it to keep two young girls in the back of the car from asking, ‘Are we there...

A while back I subscribed to Mind. It is a fundraiser for mental health services. I like to think that I am not fragile mentally, but we...

Let’s start by saying I’m not a napkin girl. I’m not a kitchen roll girl. I don’t have that dinnertime etiquette. I might wipe fingers on...

‘The world laughs in flowers’ Ralph Waldo Emerson In May last year my husband and I went to Amsterdam for a week. We had been decades ago...

I used to be a prolific letter writer. A book of twelve stamps used to last a week or two. Now, I can’t really afford a book of twelve...

Exactly what I don’t need, more wool, but it was my birthday and Hobbycraft sent me a voucher to spend. There are very few things in life...

I bumped into myself today I am looking well A little bit of extra weight perhaps I noticed I’d had a recent haircut It is very neat Was...

Gate crasher Invader Not invited to the party You drift in, keeping a low profile Lurking beside the drinks counter You sidle close,...

I am following a set of questions asked to an author in yesterday’s ‘I’. I confess it was the questions and the possibility of a blogpost...