December 8, 2012London, ONIt’s another grey and rainy day in Sweetland. ‘Tis the season. I confess, I’ve come to secretly love this in-between time of year, in all its glorious sodden decay. My Sweetlandish garden is mostly magnificently dead, with the exception of my brave roses, still blooming surely but slowly. The last bud of the year is threatening to…   see more…

November 21, 2012Farm Heaven, ONI have escaped the big city for some country air. It was seriously necessary, and quite overdue.  I can feel the life force creeping back into me at last… molecule by molecule, breath by breath. It lives! I’m all curled up by the wood stove, coffee cup and laptop, with a fine view of the bird tree…   see more…