Theres always a wind whistling about this house. Perched on the top of a hill as we are, the cold air from the north sea finds its way to our door, even on the sunniest of days. So on evenings when that wind has completely fallen away, and the low summer light fills the house, the children’s usual bedtime routine… Read More

I’ve been a full time mum now for eleven years. Eleven years. I can still feel the euphoria I felt at leaving my paid employment. I was never faced with uncertainty that perhaps I was doing the wrong thing, it felt right and I embraced and continue to embrace, the challenges that face me on a 24/7 basis. My children… Read More

Would you like to host a walk with Oh Comely magazine? The email from my friend Hilary pinged into my inbox. She went on to explain that Oh Comely had organised a series of five walks throughout the UK in Gloucestershire, Cornwall, Snowdonia, London and Orkney (you can read more about the other walks here). It sounded like a wonderful idea,… Read More

Wide Eyed childrens books are my weakness. Bedtime after bedtime, they’re reached for again and again and I never mind. First Words Art Charts is no exception. The Finnish illustrator Aino-Maija Metsola has created a beautiful early years book full of bold illustrations which will please youngsters and charm parents. Inside, are ten educational posters which can be pulled out and pinned… Read More

  My daughter loves to bake. Cakes, sponges, biscuits, buns, we’ve had elaborate three tier sponges held together with oodles of sickly icing and doodlebugs from a recipe passed down through the generations. This need to bake has been nurtured by me, I make no apologies for that. When she was a wee baby sitting on the floor by my… Read More

  Baked apples are hugely nostalgic for me. My mother would buy these from the local grocery van who stopped at our door on a Tuesday evening; usually three to a bag, their bumpy appearance often pocked with brown spots. A generous volume of brown sugar would be stuffed into each apple, before they were placed neatly on a white… Read More