Here’s a tiny bit of book. My book. Yikes. Good grief, the last time I blogged was three months ago and I was ordering cheese for H’s...

Like sorting Lego into colours, listing your worries makes you feel like you’re making progress. In both cases this is an illusion. I’m...

I’ve done a couple of these little three-day stints in the past few months, and until now they’ve been fantastic for getting a huge...

Seven year olds can make their own fairy bread. That’s dinner for the rest of the year sorted. I’m a long way through the writing of this...

Here’s my awful ugly new desk chair, rehearsing its look for next Book Week, when it plans to go as Doris the Desk Chair Fairy We’ve had...

Curious George is a movie that can penetrate even the most noise-cancelling of headphones. Writing a novel in the same room as a...

It turns out this writing a book lark is harder than it looks and, like so many things in life, not made easier by having two small...

May Blossom’s in Year One now, which was easy to tell at drop-off this morning because seventy-five percent of the class had a hand in...

Me, making a to-d0 list. Sketch by H. Attend My 20th High School Reunion This weekend I’m going my 20th high school reunion, an event...

Obviously this is not the beach we went to in this story. This is Waikiki beach, where I have also been grumpy in the recent past. I’m...

I have been exercising quite a lot. It turns out the trick to exercise is not trying too hard. Apparently I knew this when I was a child...

So sweet, you’d never know they have tiny ear canals brimming with filth and germs. Nor that the one on the right is about to throw up in...

May Blossom playing ‘Caesarean Sections’ with her play-doh. Earlier this evening I was in the bath, eating a piece of toast with peanut...

Today I am like an angry toddler stuck between the sofa and the wall. Today I am like coffee grounds spilled on the kitchen counter....

Today I’d like to praise the graffiteur responsible for the mattress pictured above. I saw it in the back lane last cleanup night. Very...