Today Charlie and George are exactly one year old. They came to us as tiny rescue kitties, the only survivors of a litter of six, but today they are lords of their domain. And for their birthday we gave them a brief adventure in the great outdoors…
Read moreToday is the 30th anniversary of me moving to this country to live with Kelley.
Read moreCharlie and George are now 5 months old. One minute they look very grown up, then, in the blink of an eye, they revert to the itty bitty new-to-the-world kitties we brought home two months ago.
Read moreKitty report #5, in which Charlie gets home-made visual rehab and begins to adapt to his visual impairment
Read moreA few years ago I used to grow herbs in pots (pot herbs: perbs) and witter on about them at great length. Recently I decided to start growing things again, this time brightly-coloured and sweet-smelling to attract wildlife.
Read moreMy sister Helena would have been 52 today. She died when she was 24. She called me Nic.
Read moreAnyone who’s in London between 14 April and 27 May can see a photo of me taken in 1981 by Anita Corbin.
Read moreWe tend to celebrate most things, and we often do it with wine, almost always with splendid food, and every single time with conversation.
Read moreIn honour of Valentine’s Day: the short version of how meeting Kelley changed everything.
Read moreMy morning looked and sounded lovely. Perfect weekend.
Read moreThis will be the last links roundup, I think. Hild‘s been out six weeks and the pace of reviews and interviews is…
Read morelilacs and honeysuckle We’ve had a run of magnificent weather here in Seattle. That’s scheduled to change tomorrow. But here’s a photo…
Read moreTomorrow the Supreme Court hears arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Proposition 8 case regarding the legality of same-sex marriage in California. On…
Read moreWell, something thinks it’s spring here, even if the weather gods are disagreeing rather sullenly. (Sky as low as a zinc pot-lid,…
Read moreGenerally only seriously weird people ask me for my photo. (Oh, and publicists…) Oddly, I’ve had two requests for photos in two…
Read moreWe left the country for a few days. We were invited up to Vancouver: missing the election seemed like a bonus. Not…
Read moreMy new toy is a replica of the seax of Beagnoth, thought to be of ninth-century Anglo-Saxon origin. Though in my opinion (neither particularly…
Read moreI’ve discovered a nifty new app, Diptic, that let’s you snap pix and then build a composite: a mini document of the day….
Read moreslinging on the old uke to show it to Kelley’s folks I’ve had my ukulele exactly one week. I’ve just recorded my…
Read moreThanks to two neighbours–one witting, the other not so much–yesterday we had lavender creme brulée for dessert. And thanks to some miraculous…
Read moreHe’s 86. He used to be half an inch taller than me. Now I’m a couple of inches taller than him. He…
Read moreWe saw this cloud right around noon on Wednesday. Those amazing colours lasted only a few minutes. It was basically a cloud-shaped…
Read moreI’ve been eating a lot of chive flowers. (A lot, period.) This is a photo I took the other day with my…
Read moreWell, I meant to write a meaty review of Superior for today but instead lost myself in watching the bees zuzz in…
Read moreKelley’s mum gave us this picture on Sunday. It’s one of a series taken by our friend, Mark Tiedemann, in 1992. You’ve…
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