Happiness comes in a terracotta pot, brimming full of auriculas. It's so satisfying to compare their performance with last year, and se...

It's a strange experience knitting with wool on the Costa Brava in hot, steamy August, and then trying on your knitted whatsit, in the b...

OK ... you're thinking. She's finally lost the plot.   The sun has addled her brain. But bear with me. There's been a lot wri...

I'm enjoying a lot of peace and quiet at the moment, perhaps rather more peace and quiet than I'm totally comfortable with. By some ...

 Okay. I am now officially fed up with the weather. It feels more like February than May here in London. And in my book that's bad - re...

It's been a funny old time out here on the (not-so) sunny Costa Brava. We've had the very worst weather imaginable. On Tuesday...

It's a funny business growing up in the digital age, awash with information on any subject you care to google. Emi, affectionately known...

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas ... We've even had five flakes of snow in London today! I know. I know. It's still...

Last week I was pootling around in the sunshine, feeling as though summer hadn't really gone anywhere, and could safely be relied u...

When we're back home in Ireland our default dog-walking venue is the White Lough, which is just a hop, a skip and a jump away from my pa...

I happened to be in the garden last night at the bewitching hour when the sun was setting and the garden was filled with the most amazing...

It's been a long time coming, but, finally, Emi's got his summer hols. Not having to get up at the crack of dawn this morning was bl...

Crumbs it's way too hot down here in the Big Smoke. It's been like this for ages, and for some reason all this hot, hot weather has ...

Well, Happy Friday folks!

Happy April! I hope you got through April Fool's Day yesterday without falling for any pranks. I've been looking back over everyth...

I grew up in Northern Ireland, where we have proper winters with frosts and sometimes snow and cold, cold nights. And I like it that wa...

Yesterday we really had to batten down the hatches and lie low while Storm Doris passed through town. She was a bit of a hell-raiser, old Do...

At around about this time of year, every year without fail, I pause and think that I'd really like to do a re-wind, and go all the way b...

I have to 'fess up to never having been to Denmark, and to have a knowledge of that country, its language and its people that has largel...

Today I'm loving a swamp Cypress - native of a mangrove swamp in the Florida Everglades, - that's made its home in Walpole Park. Who...