My Villa Life

This little guy is coming to live with us this weekend. I know, I'm nuts. But come on, look at that face.
In fact you should have seen the faces on his seven brothers and three sisters. It was very, very hard to choose. We deliberated over two visits and then three days of discussion. In the end with the decision made I was  comforted by the fact that I...

It's four years since I logged into blogger. Google panicked... there's something strange going on with your account, it warned. Yes, strange indeed.
Five years ago I wrote every other day. There was a long pause tonight as I gazed at the flashing cursor, fingers hovering over the keys....

It's beautiful isn't it? And as we say on instagram, #nofilter.
This is the view we gazed at for a week over the New Year. It's sparkling Spring Beach on Tasmania's south east coast. Maria Island lies across the bay - it's pronounced Mariah like Mariah Carey but a million miles from her glitz....

Do you 'do' public transport?
My husband is a heavy user and would quite happily never drive again. I have never seen him huff and puff quite so much as when he heard what Maggie Thatcher had apparently said about public transport:  'A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself...