Family Fun Day

Spring has arrived early in our mountain town, and the weather is perfect. Still cool enough at night to snuggle into blankets, and warm enough during the day to get out and about. The loveliest thing about living in a community like this is the unexpected treats like Family Fun Day at the park, with [...]

To Be a Writer…

To be a writer to begin a journey of romance, adventure, incredible highs and earth shattering lows. It is all there at your fingertips – the power to move, to inspire, or to bore dreckless. To be a writer is to fall in love with words – and to grow sick of them, utterly hating [...]

Capricorn Smiles

My daughter Kat took this picture of last night’s `smiley face’ in the sky – amazingly,she did it with my fairly ordinary Canon Power Shot! She fiddled the settings until she got what she wanted – something I probably would never have thought of!
The face is formed by Jupiter and Venus as the eyes and [...]

Partayyyy! Happy (belated) Halloween!

Some snaps of our Halloween party:

My daughter did the decorating, hanging her home made pumpkins in the trees

She made everything here, including the skeleton on the door and the lettering in the window Such a creative girl!

Here’s a close up of our merry skelly.

Granddaughter Adria making hearts that look like spiders – my daughter Kat [...]

It Wasn’t Easy, Being Green

When my kids were young, Sesame Street was the most politically correct children’s programme on TV – or so we thought. Kermit sang the virtues of learning to love yourself, the whole show radiated tolerance and universal understanding like a giant lighthouse, and kids started school already knowing how to read, count and live with [...]

Where did the Universe Go?

Light is essential to our well being – a bright clear day is energising, a dull overcast day clouds our emotional wellness. But in our quest for more light we have lost something else essential to our sense of belonging – a truly dark night sky ablaze with stars.
Scientists are finally starting to look at [...]

What I’ve Been Up To…

I bought a small corner display cupboard from a second hand shop recently. It needed a bit of TLC – the door was faling apart and the shelf surfaces weren’t too flash, so I decided to try my hand at decoupage again. I still have half a tub of that lovely Plaid Antique Decoupage Finish [...]

Making the runes

Here are the runes, about the size of 10 cent coins. I just grabbed little balls of clay, and pressed them down with my thumb into a disc. I tried inscribing the rune shapes into the clay with a stylus but it looked blurred, so I impressed them into the clay with the point of [...]

Rune Box – Messing with Clay

I’ve taken up messing with clay and my first projects are a rune box and a diwali lamp. Here is a picture of the rune box in its very rough first stage – I want it to look rough, as if it was dug up. I will also be making the clay runes to go [...]