1. Gazpacho in cartons from the supermarket 2. Ruins: ruins are lovely. Why don’t we have more of them? 3. Orangutans: Australia should...

In the down column: 1. My 102-year-old grandmother suffered a small stroke. 2. The fate of our missing family cat, Tigercat, was...

Here's a picture of some sort of spotty cat. H took it. I don't know how it's relevant to this post. Can't you draw some kind of...

Welcome to Cape Fear. Also Cape Hliarious Strategic Removal of Letters on Signs. I’ve been thinking this morning about H’s and my...

For those of us who don’t go out of the house to work, office sweeps are more of a challenge. Two years ago I was freelance editing from...

This morning, between baking four huge chocolate cakes and dealing with a toddler suffering from what I thought was fear of the noise the...

Today I was going to start a series inspired by the lovely blog Soulemama, in which each Friday I would post a picture of a wonderful...

One black and white owl, perched on the screen door. The month of September came to an end and the Mystery of The Toilet Roll Owls was...

A small army of owls Mysterious things never happen to me. Well, almost never. There was the incident with the Russian stalker who stole...

Because I am busy and important, not not at all because I am lazy, I’m going to post some old travel stories I’ve written over the years....