Ancestors and Ten Top Tips on how to find them
This summer I have had an rather unexpected and delightful infestation of Colonial Cousins. Firstly Ms Moneypenny came over from Canada and then Crocodile, Saphie and Sumo Dundee from Tasmania....
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My first post in absolutely bloody ages
Well blimey. If any of you out there can remember who I am, and don’t feel utterly spurned and neglected beyond all reasonable tolerance, I am here, I am astonishingly in my right mind and I am...
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Menstrual Agility or 21st century Lack of Dignity?
Woman Runs London Marathon Without a Tampon, Bleeds Freely to Raise Awareness 08/07/2015 AT 03:15 PM EDT Kiran Gandhi, who has played drums for singer MIA and Thievery Corporation, decided to run the...
View ArticleBiff 2 – The Return of Biff
Hello all My internet, telephone etc will be installed as from 13th July and then I will be back amongst you. My move was exhausting but it is slowly resembling a house, although I can’t find a...
View ArticleSupper time in the Raven-Hill household
Boy the Younger: What’s for supper, Mother? Me: Chilli Boy the Younger: Oh brilliant! You make the 2nd best chilli in the world! Me: 2nd best? Who makes the best? Boy the Younger: Lucy (his sister)...
View ArticleBiff Moves House Yet Again
Oh my dear, dear readers, my landlord is selling up and my little household has been obliged to move house AGAIN (again, again, again). I also wrote my car off and have had to scramble around with...
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Books – Their Part in my Downfall
The problem with buying books is the tendency to fill one’s head with ideas that need to pour out, but struggle to get out in the right order, to say nothing of the need to dispense with furniture in...
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Normal for Norfolk
This weekend didn’t go quite as planned as I was supposed to be trading at an open-air Steampunk festival in Diss, but a combination of difficulties plus the vicissitudes of April weather rendered the...
View ArticleInfestation
I am temporarily infested. I tried to download Google Earth and inadvertently chose a rogue version and now the entire forces of the Trojan Army have descended on me. I have sent for the IT equivalent...
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Hands Across the Sea
This afternoon I received a parcel from my cousin in Tasmania. It was my Christmas present which had travelled across the stormy seas, probably on a huge container ship, loaded onto a big truck,...
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My Beautiful Laundrette
I have discovered the joys of the communal laundry, or laundrette. I remember using them in my childhood when our washing machine broke down. Our local facility was always full and staffed by old...
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A very belated Happy New Year
You are all going to get so sick of me, pleading for mercy for neglecting you so horribly and continually promising that I am back in the cockpit and then disappearing into the clouds again. The truth...
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General Slothfulness (do you see what I did there….?)
Ah, it’s all sloths with me at the moment. Actually this is a word of encouragement to any of you who believe that you are ‘Not Ready for Christmas’ – whatever that means. In order to encourage you...
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Be Prepared at Christmas – previous articles that you will find useful
Here are a few previous articles that you may find useful. I know I do! FOOD: You should be starting to think about making your Christmas Cake, Pudding etc now and the following articles give...
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The Archers: an institution in danger?
I’m sorry if this article is a little irrelevant to my international readers, but I’m afraid the plot lines of the 60 year old radio soap ‘The Archers’ could bring the mother country to its knees. I...
View ArticleDon’t go in the basement
Today I am going to clear the basement to make room for storing stock. I fear the basement. There are spores. I used to have my office, ‘The Bunker’, down there, but the damp eventually overwhelmed my...
View ArticleBack to school
Last night was a restless night and, knowing that I had to be up early this morning, I went to bed early, had a hot drink, read quietly and had my light out before midnight (early for me). I then...
View ArticleSummer ends and the Autumn term begins: Part 2
In the late afternoon of the Butterfly Farm visit, the storm broke and storms are good when you live on the side of Glastonbury Tor. The dark clouds began to gather over St Michael’s Tower and the air...
View ArticleSummer ends and the Autumn Term begins – Part 1
Could someone please explain to me where the summer went? One minute we were all going mental with thirty end of term events per minute and the next thing I know, it’s September. We even had an extra...
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A very sad day indeed
This has been a tough week. It is the last week of term and also Boy the Younger’s last week of Primary school. This means that there seems to be an event at the school every two and a half minutes,...
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