Well. It turns out that if you really want to avoid blogging, combining ongoing building work with someone being Ill All Week is a good way to go. Except that I didn’t want to avoid it (and being ill all week is NOT a good way to go). But the illness had its upside – …
Category archives: Moments
Game on: bagatelle
At my parent’s house, there’s a little piece of history – and wonder – hidden under the sideboard. A bagatelle board, picked up at an auction, back when my parents were keen to go to little local auctions as a way of picking up a few bits of furniture cheaply. We had a lot of …
Game on: dominoes
When I say dominoes, I really don’t mean little old men in cafes in warm countries, facing off against each other. I mean a set of little wooden tiles that you can do pretty much anything with. Â A further train journey item. (Lest it be thought that we spend all our time on trains – …
Eco audit: new perspectives
Right at the end of my teens, I got a bucket load of new perspective. I lived abroad for half a year. I may not have backpacked around South America, or lived in a mud hut, but I went far enough to get some fresh perspective. Going to a country on the other side of …
Eco audit: country mouse
These days, it’s quite trendy to holiday in the country. Â As countrified as you can. Â Glamping. Â Staying on eco farms. Â All that sort of thing. One of the great gifts my parents gave me was to take us somewhere in the country for our summer holidays. Â Not quite off-grid, in modern parlance, but sometimes, that …