Tara’s Gallery this week has the fun-filled suggestion playtime as its theme. Here I am hot-foot from a weekend at Granny’s where her smallest grandsons had a fine old time. Among the fine feasts, stories and compulsory helpings of fresh air there were jigsaws, wind-up snails, sofa safaris, tractors and wheelbarrow rides. So far so […]
Half-baked Life of Pi
Novel Idea for Tara’s GalleryTara’s wonderful gallery this week suggested the theme ‘A Novel Idea’ for a photo. Brilliant theme and how much fun to be had. All week I’ve chuntered ideas around in my head without settling on one. Then I remembered how The Panther of News had commented on how Boy Three in […]
Toast: a little shelter on a stormy day
Some births are blissful, some scary, some medical, some quick. Every woman has a tale to tell and she’ll probably want to tell you if you give her an excuse. There’s blood spattered agony, skin splitting screams and contractions that would empty a toothpaste tube in one go. So many different versions of the very […]