Well I had, and am continuing to have, a wonderful Christmas. I’ve purposely done less preparing this year and it’s paid off in terms of lots of downtime to slob around the house in my PJ’s eating lots of delicious cheese and chocolate and binge-watching Christmas TV and movies. I am generally a very activeContinue reading “Our Christmas 2017”
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A Lasting Christmas Gift
The importance of taking rest during the festive period
My Sanity Saviour; Knitting and my Knitwit Friends
I can’t believe I’ve been writing this website for over a year without mentioning what has become a cornerstone of my life. I joined my first knitting group about 4 years ago during the winter months. Seemed like a good way to keep these gardening fingers busy while the garden was snoozing. Little did IContinue reading “My Sanity Saviour; Knitting and my Knitwit Friends”
Trip to Cornwall
This summer we wanted to go on a short flight for our holidays so we plumped for Cornwall, England, fulfilling a long-held wish of mine at the same time; a trip to the Eden Project. Here’s how our trip went.
Making our Trip to Cornwall as Sustainable as possible
It would be wrong for me to label this trip as sustainable, because we flew, and we all know just how unsustainable that it. Flying practically wipes out all your carbon savings from living a low-waste life. I’ve made my peace with this. We tried the ferry, but after one of the most horrendous crossingsContinue reading “Making our Trip to Cornwall as Sustainable as possible”
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