// Journal
Hello and how do you do? It’s very nice to meet you here, in the pages of my Journal — the place where my brain spills its contents in tidy little blog posts so you don’t have to rummage through the recycling bin of my thoughts. Here I record everything from earth-shattering revelations (the biscuit tin is not, in fact, bottomless) to microscopic musings (should plants be charged rent for sunlight?).
No subscription, no secret handshake, no complicated ritual — just open access to my diary-shaped ramblings. Browse at will, linger on the questionable poetry, chuckle at the minor catastrophes, and feel free to leave with more questions than you arrived with. If nothing else, I promise a light entertainment warranty and at least one genuinely awkward anecdote per visit.
Pond Life
Hello dear reader and welcome to another Sunday in the Yorkshire Wolds. I hope life is treating you reasonably well and the sun is shining in your corner of the world. Our Spring weather has been extremely mixed. We had some beautiful hot and sunny days in April, but May has been very mixed so far…
Bunny Ears
Good morning dear reader and welcome to another sunny day at Comb Towers. Spring appears to have sprung very early this year. We have lurched from snow and ice, to torrential rain and now we are little baskers - basking in warm sunshine…
Christmas In June
Good afternoon, dear reader and welcome to a beautiful sunny day in the heart of the Yorkshire Wolds, U.K. I have had a very busy writing week trying to get towards the finish line of my new crime novel, Retribution. I am hopeful that the next two weeks should see it off…
Ladies Who Lunch - Or Not…
Good morning dear reader and welcome to life in the Yorkshire Wolds. We are blessed with a beautiful sunny morning, as the saying goes ‘a day stolen from Spring.’ I hope I find you well wherever you are in the world, on the cusp of new adventures in a new week…
To Nest or not to Nest… That is the Question.
Good morning dear reader and you are very welcome to a beautiful spring morning in the Yorkshire Wolds. I hope I find you well and no doubt you are as pleased to see the Spring sunshine as I am…
Oh dear, what can the matter be?
I am very well and thankful that I am here at all after my little escapade during the week. Also, I'm thankful that Spouse is speaking to me at all. He is … just. So, what happened to bring this state of affairs about? …
The Lady in the Red Car
For some weeks now, a mysterious woman in a red car has been tooting and waving at Spouse if their paths cross anywhere in the village. Mysteriously, I am never with my spouse when these events occur…
ROLL UP, ROLL UP ! For the Pothole Lottery
The snowdrops are out but it is still grey and gloomy and spring seems far away. Recently the temperatures plummeted and the frost and snow lay deep and crisp and very uneven…
Renewing a Prescription
All I had to do was fill out a repeat prescription form, toddle up the road to the medical centre with it and hand it in at the Reception desk. Or, so I thought…
