Horseradish flourishes

On the left a healthy vibrant horseradish plant, which established itself by accident through the bottom of the pot.  It grows happily in some gravel by the back door in spite of attempts to dig it out and eat it. 

Tuna pasta sweetcorn recipe

This is possibly the quickest easiest supper to make in the whole world.  

A (Bit of a) Day in the Life of the Mum

A couple of weeks ago while netbooking busily in my home- café, I met a mum with a baby who grumbled to me that her partner had suggested she was just slobbing about the house all day while he worked hard at that manly kind of bringing home the bacon stuff.  In fact, I can't quite believe this, but he might even have said it while she was obliged to sit on the sofa breast-feeding.  

The Princess Diaries 2 review

Lace wedding dresses and women's rights, that's my kind of Saturday teatime movie!

Civilising the Piglet

 

“What’s going on now?” grumbles the Good Fella emerging bleary-eyed into what has become a regular screaming row going on between myself and the Piglet – although not normally at 7.20 am.

Zen and the advanced art of hanging out the laundry



This sculpture is by Lynn Waters

In this blogpost, I am going to consider some more advanced aspects of the important Zen meditative practice:  hanging out the laundry.   

The Loss of Immummity

Until recently I had immummity.  Immummity is the opposite of man flu.