my gratitude project: organic strawberries
(This post is No 21 in my gratitude project) I’m so grateful for delicious organic strawberries. My favourite way of eating strawberries this summer is in a juice made with the following: 3 carrots 2...
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I’m not sure where the summer has gone – there has simply been no time to write. I am the kind of person who prioritises home life and being a Muma above all else, and when home and kids call me,...
View Articlemy gratitude project: herb tea
(This post is No 24 in my gratitude project) This is my tea drawer – colourful, eh? Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without...
View Articlemy gratitude jar: bubbles
(This post is no 26 in my gratitude project) A fun post this week – just say to say how much I love bubbles. So grateful there is such a thing as a bubble! Photo taken using my I-phone 4S with...
View Articlemy gratitude project: Snoopy cartoons
(This post is No.29 in my gratitude project) I am so thankful for Snoopy cartoons – they have made me smile for over thirty years!
View Articlemy gratitude project: the food on my plate
(This post is No 30 in my gratitude project) I went to a good old English grammar school where we had to say grace before each meal – ‘for what I am about to receive may the Lord make me truly...
View Articlemy gratitude project: lots of lovely logs!
(This post is No 33 in my gratitude project) When you live in a draughty old cottage with no central heating, how to keep warm can become a bit of a preoccupation at this time of year – hence my...
View ArticleSend yourself a Valentine!
How can you love someone if you don’t love yourself? Maya Angelou You may well think this is a very odd thing to suggest! We’re not taught to love ourselves – and it sounds a bit weird,...
View Articlemy gratitude project: a full fruit bowl
(This post is No 34 in my gratitude project) This is my fruit bowl. I love it (not the bowl so much – though it’s a nice Ikea one – but the contents).. Lots of yummy, juicy organic fruit, full of...
View Articlemy gratitude project: hootin’ tawny owls
(This post is No 35 in my gratitude project) Our garden is playground and hunting ground to a ‘parliament’ (there’s a collective noun for you!) of tawny owls. From evening through till morning they...
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