Today there is a celebration over at Day of Happiness -- you can pledge to spread happiness, or nominate a happiness hero.
1. Alec is sitting in his pushchair ready to go. We are not leaving for another hour.
2. To sit warm and sleepy after lunch in a room with a wood fire.
3. We take a dozing boy upstairs and put him to bed. When I've finished settling him I come down and get ready to go out. Nick looks lost: "I don't know what to do with myself this evening." He'd been expecting to spend the time reading stories and building pillow houses.
Brew-up, out of the oven and future dressing.
1. I stir the tea in the canister to get the right mix of black tea leaves and flower petals and orange peel and lift a spoonful into the in...
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1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the m...
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1. Oli has written a poem describing how Tunbridge Wells makes him veer between wanting to fall in love and wanting to shoot people. Which i...
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1. The cottage across the carpark is covered in scaffolding. Now that the roofers have gone home, the family has climbed up to see the view ...