Eight Years

Eight years are the words in my mind today. Eight full years since we lost mum. It is hard to believe that time has gone by so fast – at the time it seemed like the world stood still. Yet we have continued, and on the whole we have done well and grown stronger. Most [...]

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Meringue-a-thon

This weekend has been a meringue-a-thon for me – cooking lots of little bite sized meringues for a friend’s wedding next weekend. As I was packing the last of them into the freezer (yes, you can freeze meringues) I laughed to myself about what these lovely fluffy bites were made of (the recipe I use [...]

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A community for broken hearts?

I’m not great at fixing things. I don’t always have the patience to do a good job. This week a cycle of Grief Share finished at the church – lives have be touched, people have been comforted in the grief, but Oh how I wish I could tap them on the head on the way [...]

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Transforming Headgear

I’m just not a hat person. Watching the royal wedding I found most of the hats very amusing.  Perhaps I just don’t have the courage to go out with a giant pretzel on my head, but also I just don’t have a head for hats – too much out of control curly hair. (One old [...]

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