Trundling through life

I can't tell you how pleased I was to find  Xanthophyll to put in my autumn alphabet.  It's probably the most autumnal word in my li...

Psalm 65   8    You visit the earth and water it;   ♦ you make it very plenteous. 9    The river of God is full of water;   ♦ you prepare gr...

  Here’s to a   Wonderful, Windy, Woolly Autumn Well, well, well.    Here we are in autumn, when the weather turns wild , the wind whist...

I have to admit that I’m more of a Compline sort of gal than a Vespers one.  Compline is at bedtime: Vespers is the evening prayer and is a ...

  Cow parsley There are some weeds which I rather like.   I do have my standards but there is something rather lovely about umbellifers stan...

  Tomorrow, 23rd September, is the autumnal equinox , that curious point in the year when day and night are roughly equal in length. After t...

Slippers are one of the great privileges of retirement. My slippers are not glamorous. In fact, they are from a range of men’s slippers!  I ...

  In the summer the native dog rose looks lovely in our hedgerows but the flowers died off some time ago and now we have rosehips.   They ar...