Sigh. I haven't posted in a long time and the reason for it was simple: I hadn't wanted to. 2015 was a strange year, a year th...

Today, Sunday - Mothers' Day -  I tried to clean the bathroom. The point I gave up at was when I was leaning over the bath with my tro...

I learned a new word recently: threenager. It describes the delight that is a moody, irrational, temperamental three-year-old. And frankly, ...

My father's birthday was in February but we were awash in the various fluids that accompany a dose of the 'flu at the time. As I...

Some time ago, before the book 'Fifty Shades of Grey' became well-known in Germany, I came across it in the English section of our ...

When you've had a baby, you're supposed to love it. Often, unbidden, you do. Sometimes, it's just plain old love and not L...

This is a very simple variation of a traditional granny square. I think it works best as a four-round square, so the contrast in the co...

I'm not old, am I? Not that I'd have a problem if I were properly old, i.e. 90, but I'm barely forty and in my head I'm stil...

I really am not the most maternal person. I'm really not. But I have two children and, in general, the smallies seem to like me. This is...