What a lovely week! I couldn’t have asked for better. Started with a trip down to London to see Low at the Barbican (amazing) and catch up with some friends on Tuesday. I’d not seen Damian for a week so was lovely to get to hang out with him away from work pressures for a […]

Well I never. It snowed, as you are doubtless aware. And here in West Yorkshire it snowed a lot. And there were snow drifts. Our garden looked insane. We spent several hours clearing the driveway today (shoveling snow it hard work – blimey) and I tried to capture the bonkers nature of the snow drifts…but […]

Once upon a time in a muddy field years ago, I met a crazy lady called Hayley. Having started volunteering for the Oxfam Stewarding Team at roughly the same time, we became good friends. Moving up to Yorkshire last year meant moving nearer to Hayley. Hurrah. We get to go out walking together mostly which […]

This week has been a bit bonkers here in Meltham. Baltic winds and snow one day, lovely bright sunshine the next, then more icy winds and today icky rain. Thankfully I was able to take full advantage of the one sunny day, though. We (Murphy and I) hopped in the car and trundled across to […]

This weekend was the anniversary of my first date with a really lovely fella. We met online, drawn together by a shared and slightly obscure taste in music, and chatted for weeks before finally setting a date to hang out together over a beer in Sheffield. We clicked straight away. There were more beers. And […]