We had lunch with Kerry, Sunny and Jamie yesterday. It's such a gentle pleasure to sit around a table and share food with loved ones. T...

The Irish folk who read here, and maybe those from the UK too, will know of Maura Laverty, but I have just discovered her. Sadly Maura died...

Now that we're looking after Jamie occasionally, it's brought back a lot of memories about how things were when my own sons were ba...

Thank you for the love, thoughts and prayers sent to us yesterday. - - ♥ - - I never thought of myself as being a grandmother until it...

Again, thank you for all the love and warmth being sent to lift my spirits. I'm still feeling weak but I was up all day yesterday and i...

One of the pleasures of having a break away from the blog is coming back full of enthusiasm. I miss all of you when I'm not here writin...

Last week I wrote about vegetable garden preparation, maintenance and production but there are many other parts of gardens that are inter...

For the past two days the Down to Earth forum has been experiencing problems. Some people can get in, some can't, some can post, some c...

We finally got our phone and internet back this morning. What an incredible couple of days. Kerry, Sunny and Jamie arrived, not mid-afterno...