Interim arrangements

The solution in today's cryptic crossword of my favourite newspaper was Tiefpunkt , low point, and if I win the competition, the first p...

The grandchild (6) has figured out reading - properly - and has taken to it with much energy. We are now being read to on a daily basis and ...

  We've been away. It was a good break, great weather, good scenery, mostly no internet, long walks up and down hills and meeting people...

If you’ll allow me a crude metaphor (as I’m sure you, the King of las Bromas de Fartos, will): a guy comes into a dinner party, takes a dump...

The tomatoes are all harvested, either eaten or in various stages in the freezer or dried, I canned most of the pears with lemon, cardamom a...

 it is a serious thing just to be alive         on this fresh morning                 in the broken world.   Mary Oliver  Late summer always...

So today's the day of that meeting between an easily manipulated, not very intelligent narcissist and a highly manipulative, completely ...

    This afternoon we sat for a while by the small pond in the back of the large cemetery, watching the dragon flies. The cemeteries here ar...

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. Carl Sagan  First things first: After admiring Ellen 's ...

Here is an amazement - once I was twenty years old and in every motion of my body there was a delicious ease, and in every motion of the g...

By now, I have figured out how to shower safely and anyway, wounds are healing, generally that's their job. There are wobbly moments but...

I am on day three. Carefully coughing up the phlegm residue from the stomach tube I had inserted during anaesthetics takes time. Also, laugh...

Behold the bicycle: an ingenious arrangement of metal and rubber that liberates the body from the dusty plod or the frustrating car to ride ...

    It is very hot. We get up very early, pick the raspberries and the blueberries, dig up the last potatoes, fill the bird bath and are gre...

. . . for those who choose to awake to collapse, it becomes their duty to put their care and attention into creating spaces and communities ...

It is really hot. And very windy. I should take pictures of the garden, I really should. At least I can report that we had a bumper sugar sn...

It's been tough, what with the heat and being cross with the world in general. But needs must. Two weeks to go until the MRI, I try not ...

It has rained and it is getting hot.  In other words, summer. lily season This afternoon, I sat in the auditorium of a concert hall and list...

This. Just listen. I am glad I did. Click on the "Last Year's Move to Toronto" heading and then play on the video on his subst...

  things have grown Before reaching a decision in favour of surgical removal of a gallbladder with neither acute inflammation nor stone form...