How long has it been? A week, two maybe? How that happens I have no idea but life took over and swamped my every waking moment with other...

There are many occasions when I wish this was an audible blog, if only to torture your ear drums just a little bit. Tom is practicing his...

Selvedge magazine are having a party to celebrate five years in existence. Five years of delightful, distinctive and even informative...

Ow!! My hands are hurting, my stomach muscles feel as though I’ve been abducted by Jane Fonda, my legs ache and my face feels as raw  as...

Work was nervously abandoned today for the sake of my youngest sons tooth, or lack of a bit of it! We sauntered dazed and still half...

The only…I repeat ONLY problem with being as good as married to a builder is this! If they get in to the bath before you, the bath is not...

Big boat to Oban Apologies to those who were hoping to see a fresh post yesterday. After a hard days shopping with the boys for pinking...

on a day like this! I tried, I really tried to get some work done, but all I had to show for it at the end of the day was 4 honesty...

I’m just back from a gathering. A gathering of friends on the very loose suggestion that we make stuff which we otherwise won’t get round...

I'm in!! Yesterday Pauline told me the sea temperature was 13 degrees, warmer than the air. I’ve been processing her daily swim stories...

Picking sloes We’ve just been picking enormous sloe berries on the croft. There’s a patch (a secret patch!) where the blackthorn thickets...

Cabbages and Tea Once again the day came around when Lismore residents have the opportunity to off load surplus courgettes, carrots,...

Today was the kind that I’d like to have go on for ages! The skies were huge and high and pale blue through to transparent. The water...

Here’s a response to Joe’s comment below. I was going to send you an email Jo and then I thought, maybe this is something other people...

Mull is hidden but the sun isn't Just as I was arriving home the sun came out and I turned round to this beautiful view. #LynneofLorn...

Last night we had a meeting in the hall to discuss the Lismore community web site. Up until now Teenie and Pauline have been running it...

Is this not the most gorgeous creature? Cuddly no, but very cute! The hedgehogs are everywhere, dosily ambling about stuffed with slugs...

Ruben having a breather When we can manage to find a bit of time amongst all the other distractions, Ruben, Tom and I go and do a bit...

I have a hunch that every child is suited to a different instrument. We’re not all made for fiddle, flute or double base. Each instrument...

Apologies folks. I’ve been slacking seriously on the post writing front but not for lack of activity. The last few weeks have been...