Tired and a little unhappy after a long day yesterday, I spent just twenty minutes outside in the wind and very bright sunshine, giving the lavender a haircut. It made everything better. Then I made a really good cup of coffee.

I enjoyed reading Soulemama’s post on tapping maple trees. It made me remember when, years ago, my friend (who also built her own kayak once, so impressive) had made wine from birch sap and we had a tasting at her place. The tasting turned into a big party and all the wine was drunk. I [...]

M. and I went out to look at the moon before his bedtime yesterday. Wrapped in a woolly blanket; he was in his pajamas. “Look how big it is,” I said, “and yellow, it looks like an egg yolk.” “It looks like an eggshell,” M. said.
The moon was big yesterday and funnily today it seemed [...]

The weather was crazy this morning – we had rain, sleet, snow, thunder (!) and then, finally sunshine. I went into the garden with both kids before dinner – the 3-year-old played and joined me on a tour to see whether there were buds on the berry bushes (there are, but some look quite the [...]

The sun is here, finally. After the snow melted (and we had snow for several months, quite unusual) a long cold spell bled all colours from the landscape. Everything is bleak. The lawn is white in  large spots. The snowdrops in the front garden looked like they were made from glass and would shatter at [...]