Mother Distracted

Someone recently asked me to write about my adventures .  I have obviously lived a very modest and quiet life.  I am probably what Charlotte...

It is dark, dank and rain spattered outside.  January is here with all its gloom and unspoken chastisement for finishing a huge box of Thor...

It is Monday morning in the Hobbis household and I have the kind of head cold that renders you grumpy and out of sorts with the world.  It ...

Ours is a pretty unprepossessing, some may say scruffy, front door. It does not, it has to be said, rank in the top ten front doors of hist...

When I was young I used to share a bedroom with my little sister and, every night, would regale her with (as she recounts it)  hilarious  t...

Once upon a time, there was a cow called Moosie-Moo who spent her days happily grazing in Poppy Meadow. Her closest friends were a beautif...

Three weeks to go.  In all honesty I don't know how I got here. One minute I was rolly-pollying down the grassy slopes in the grounds of...

Somebody has apparently moved Spring. After the Biblical flooding parts of the UK suffered this year, at least we can show a modicom ...

Did you know that every 40 seconds a child dies from water-related diseases? Or that 40% of the world's population don't have acce...

It is a Tuesday. The rain is streaming down Baker Street. Still warm horses are steaming gently, their cab drivers shelting under rough-hewn...

The Versatile Blogger Award is a brilliant way of drawing attention to up and coming blogs that you enjoy. First up, many thanks to the l...

Next year I will be 50 years old . Half a century. 5 decades. No other way of putting it and no other way of addressing it without being ext...

"I think that shale may be neolithic" announced The Sybyl, prodding the rain spattered rocks with her hiking pole. It is a Mo...

Tuesday morning and we are late for school again. "Mummy", says Caitlin, "I wish I was a bird". That's nice dear...

My father, John Brooks, is a wonderful poet and I find his poems very relaxing and peaceful.  I thought this one, about Autumn , might brin...