I managed to finish painting the walls.  Now I am putting some final touches to the room as there are a couple of ugly bits left, plus the walls look…

Since we moved in, a large heavy painting has been sitting in the corner of the drawing room.  It came from Norfolk, and in fact only came with us by…

I put my usual state in inverted commas, as I am not sure I have ever warranted the description of normal, but whatever it is, I was back to it…

I went upstairs to put the laundry away and was surprised to see this. To illustrate why I was surprised, here is a paraphrase of a famous Bible story.  When…

I had my family round for Halloween (and a sort of combo with my birthday which is on Tues). For the first time I laid the table in the dining…