Magic27

Technically, here in the south of France, summer could (and probably will) continue well into September. Yet my daughters and I returned fro...

My word, it's been a while. I didn't even do my depressingly repetitive New Year's questionnaire this year (seriously, almost ...

You can probably guess what's coming next... I studiously avoided hoping that 2017 would be better than 2016, because that kind of sil...

I suspect that this blog is in its death throes – I certainly never seem to be able to motivate myself to write anything (possibly because ...

I've often been told, when feeling particularly down and desperate, that the best thing to do is to make a list of all I'm grateful ...

To quote a well-known song, "My soul is spiralling in frozen fractals all around". And of course, I'm finding it hugely di...

It will almost certainly come as no surprise to anyone to learn that I'm feeling singularly overwhelmed, stressed, scared, whatever. C...