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Author: Anny

  • Taxi Anyone?

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    Well I don’t know about you, but one week into the school holidays and I’m pooped. What have I been doing to get so tired? I’ve been running a round the clock taxi service. Being terrible planners – we still don’t know when or where we’re going on holiday – the girls are making up…

  • A Visit To The Dark Mountain

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    Most mornings, once the daily round has circled, I sit at the computer with a mug of steaming hot coffee, and I go visiting. I travel curtesy of the internet, to the blog homes of the people who, for whatever reason (and there are many) I have bookmarked. Every visit is tinged with excitement –…

  • Meet my new life-coach, Dr Seuss!

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    Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. Dr Seuss Was Dr Seuss a part of your childhood? He never featured in mine, although I think he practically taught my husband to read. I was subject to Peter and Jane, but that’s another story altogether, and probably explains a lot. Since we had our children, I’ve come…

  • A Dodford Diversion, or Happy 111th Birthday Nan

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    I had a day out yesterday. It would have been my Nan’s 111th. birthday, so I went to Dodford Church, between Bromsgrove and Kidderminster in Worcestershire, where Nan, her husband, her sister and brother-in-law, her mother and father, my mum and dad and countless other close relatives are all buried or scattered. It might sound…

  • A day trip to Oxford

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    Considering we only live an hour away from Oxford, it’s surprising to me how infrequently we go there, which is a shame, because it’s a fascinating and inspiring place – well it is, if you’re in to architecture over the ages, expensive shops, quirky pubs, massive bookshops, rivers, bells towers, oh and probably lots of…

  • Any Scrivener Fans Out There?

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    Is anyone using Scrivener for your writing projects? My friend who is Mac mad, gave me a pile of magazines, dating back a few months, which I have in the reading room (otherwise known as the en suite bathroom). A large proportion of the content goes way over my head, but one article caught my…

  • New to me music finds

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    One of the things that I love about the blogging community, is the way in which the discoveries of one person can inspire another. In one such vein, this week I am enormously indebted to Moonlight and Hares. If you go and visit Karen’s website, in addition to her lovely posts, you’ll also notice some…

  • Get ready for bucket and spade time…

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    You know what time of year it is, when every weekend there’s a school fete, a church fete or a village fete, and when you need a rain coat over your t-shirt…yes you’re right, it’s very nearly bucket and spade time, or as you might know it, ‘The Summer Holidays’ I love this time of…

  • Teachers strike the right message.

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    What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.  ~Karl Menninger Tomorrow our daughters’ school is closed to the children because a sizeable proportion of the staff are striking. The reaction of most of the mothers I know, is one of disdain or frustration at being left with a whole day’s child care to organise…

  • Le Touquet? Yes Please!

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    We are lucky enough to have a friend who flies his own light aircraft. As a result and because he likes taking people out on jaunts, we’ve had some lovely days out over the last few years, flying to places around the UK. This weekend however, was something of a departure (forgive the expression). Our…

  • Help! Murderers and Flawed Detectives Needed.

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    I may have mentioned that I’m a woman of a certain age – and you know what that means don’t you – it means I’m addicted to detective fiction. Not for me the bedroom romps of chick-lit, or bodice ripping historic romances, no, what I most like to tuck myself into bed with at night…

  • The Deep Blue Yonder

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    I started off feeling a bit miserable this morning – I don’t know why, I’m beginning to think it might be those naughty little wotsits they call HORMONES, but I’ve decided I’m not going to give in to them. I like the line from Emma Thompson’s character in Love Actually No one loves a sissy…