At home with sick child. The weater is bright and it is spring now, the daffodils in the garden are very yellow but not yet unfurled, and I’m sitting at the kitchen table, leaned over the ipad. The dress I bought yesterday for today’s family event hangs unused in the closet, biding its time for [...]

The daylight is coming back. I will miss seeing the sunrise from the station as I wait for my train in the mornings. (I will not miss waiting for the bus home in the dark and wet.) Today the morning sky was grey and fat with snow; the sun a golden quiet in the horizon.

The darkness in January is so much darker. People have turned off the fairy lights in their gardens, tidying up after the holidays, wrapping up the candlelight of December. Suddenly we’re all in waiting. The weather has turned and it’s much warmer, the snow we had last month is long gone and yesterday I caught [...]

The first day of the year is spent according to the recipe of years past – eggs and bacon (the good organic kind), oatmeal pancakes, milky coffee for breakfast. Chatting to good friends who stayed the night; recovering slightly from the sleeplessness of New Year’s Eve. Cooking something simple for dinner is suddenly special; I [...]

Honestly? I thought I had lost the password for this site. I did a design course and then I got a new job and we had our (short) summer vacation and there was no room for posting here at all. No room in my brain at least. Now I’ve been working full time for three [...]

I am stuck inside. The weather is lovely, but birch pollen wants me dead so I have to keep doors and windows closed. The past few weeks have been stressful and it feels strange to have a sick day. I’ve been playing with a drawing app on my ipad and I’m quite happy to be [...]

For my birthday, K. and I had lunch in a really great French bistro (the best chocolate fondant I have ever eaten (I was very happy that day)) and they had lovely fabric napkins. I wanted to have them at home, too, so I made some. I found this tutorial for making mitered corners and [...]

These days, I have toast (our homemade no knead bread) with chocolate for breakfast. I’ve only encontered this stuff in Denmark – thin wafers of chocolate meant for bread. Foreigners tend to scoff at this (”it falls off!”), but the secret is either lots of butter and fresh, white rolls, or like this, on toast. [...]

There is hot tea in the cup. This is the only way.

The sun feels warmer. The cold let go and everything is wet. When the snow came, the ground was already soaked from weeks of rain, and the melted snow doesn’t drain away. Our lawn is waterlogged and muddy. There are snowdrops, though, and I picked one.