Our Haystack

The earth is warm again and spring-sunshine streams through the branches of beech trees, turning their new leaves a shocking, almost offens...

I am exceedingly risk-averse. And yet, this character trait is precisely the thing that led me here. Here being roughly 17,000 miles from h...

Alex and I have formed numerous traditions since relocating to England. We toast the shift from autumn to winter with the first mulled wine...

Yesterday, I arrived home after a fortnight away to the first crocus tips emerging from the ground, a garden full of birdsong & sunshin...

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, or perhaps anywhere, you might be forgiven for thinking immediately that 'beauty' and '...

In a previous post I shared  THIS  wonderful short piece by Bill Nighy about all the things that bring him delight.  I loved it so much th...

Petra is incredibly vast, in some of the most spectacular and isolated desert terrain, and ultimately it leaves you in awe of these anc...

  The Dead Sea, and in the distance Israel,  as seen from The Dead Sea Museum. At the midway point of our trip through Jordan, a...