I grew up with a golden rule for what to do with Christmas cards at the end of the festive season. Â Turn them into tags for next year’s presents. Â Ideally, cut with pinking shears to make zigzag edges for greater interest. I can visualise my mother doing this. Â The pinking shears were a particular source …
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It’s bright today. That’s good. We need a little comfort where we can find it, when temperatures drop – and here it is in the ash trees that are still in (autumnal coloured) leaf, the brightness of the sun on them…and the pigeons. There’s a man who lives maybe five minutes away on foot who …
Sometimes it takes something small to set larger things in motion. Anticipating visitors, we do a bit of reorganising of the sitting room. Then we remember that we have a guest over Hogmanay. So we do a bit of moving things round to allow for that too, now we’ve started. Then we remember that we’re …
A different feeling today. The sickness and the cold have been (mostly) banished. It’s back to school, back to the morning school run for one parent – and time for the other to get the house back again. Except that it’s been rather lovely, the weekend extending by two days. Once the obligatory school phone …
That’s what my brother refers to it as. Being based in Yorkshire as he is, you’ve got to get in your t’s while you can. It seems a strange one to put in the box, when it’s also work, rest, and a speedy route to Christmas present decision making, but there it is. Why today? …