Having lived in or around Oxford for most of my adult life, the famed May Day celebrations eluded me for many, many years. My initial...

It’s been a very Terry Pratchett month, as I’ve made good progress on my read-through of the full discworld series. I’ve also bought and...

Despite feeling generally rather better than through the winter, I've still been struggling a bit recently - my depression is pretty well...

Yes, I'm going to waffle on about kayaking again! Because not only is a wonderful for both my mental and physical health, but it's an...

Well, the fresh river air did its magic last Saturday, and it's lasted all week. My transformation from the lethargy and lack of focus...

At long last it feels as though spring is properly in the air - at least when it stops raining for long enough for there to be anything...

I've been continuing with audiobooks as well as hardcopies through this month. Twenty-something daughter and I started listening to The...

I have many and varied skills - ok, a few anyway - but it's safe to say that computer games are not one of them! Every so often I come...

It's been a fair few years now that I've felt increasingly uncomfortable with Mothers Day and Fathers Day - but particularly Mothers Day...

As my nearest and dearest know all too well, I'm not good at cleaning and tidying. I do like things to be neat, but once they start...

This month I've discovered that I can actually manage to follow audiobooks while knitting, and rather enjoy them too! There's a part of...

I've never really considered myself an adventurous person, but rather would describe myself as averagely average, predictable, just...

I know I’m far from alone in finding it difficult to cope when there’s too much on my plate, and recently I’ve been struggling a lot....

For the past few weeks, I'd been increasingly certain that my oncology checkup this past week was going to bring bad news. In my head,...

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I'm currently in the process of knitting a beautiful lace shawl for the Chaos Gremlin (formerly...

Through this month I've continued (and finished) my re-read of the Anne of Green Gables series, as well as a variety of other books. I...

Those who know me – or have met me, or have read my blog – know that I love kayaking. It came as a total surprise to me when I first...

Having knitted most of a sock in early December while on a long weekend in France, I managed to finish knitting it a week later - and...

This has been one of those weeks that simultaneously feels as though it's flown past, while at the same time each day has lasted about 72...

I don't make new year's resolutions - I'm not sure I ever have, really, but over the past decade or two it's become more and more of a...