Our film-maker son’s birthday is today. Born a few days before our first wedding anniversary there were no knowing looks from family members (back then they watched the first few months of a new marriage like hawks). Today there’s no more pretending we’re still thirty somethings with a son knocking on twenty something! On bringing…

Footlights officially has three bedrooms, it’s on the Zillow description. But since only Hubs and I live here two of them are, to coin a new phrase, ‘flex spaces’. Sam, Daughts’ Hubs, commented on how we use every room. He lived on the property and was a frequent visitor to our fridge and pantry so…

My blue-eyed cowboy and I walked two hundred miles in 32 days. We were in London, we didn’t hike or go for intentional forced marches (as my son calls them) the mileage accumulated as we went about our daily lives. Living in London for us is a very healthy occupation. Whenever we return to the…

The landmark birthday party lasted a few hours and was typically English. For those of you who don’t know what that means, dancing happens – immediately! Even in private homes. Furniture is scooted to the walls, carpets are rolled up, music is turned to full volume and in an instant a small, crammed, disco materialises!…

Let’s start at the very beginning shall we? Your Papa and I fell for each other hook, line and sinker in the City of Love… Paris. So, when we started our family we had already decided on what we were going to call our first girl… After two non-girl babies the time eventually came for…

We decided to go to London in the summer…I know, High Season! However, going in July and August turned out not to be so bad, we secured our regular airbnb for 5 weeks, used some miles for travel and arranged for cats and garden to be cared for…although Callie decided she was coming with us…

Daughts and her Hubs entrusted their two girls to our care – for four days and three nights – The baby Eleanor is 6 months and her sister Olivia is two years. I had cleared my calendar because, although I’d love to have taken them to the library for story-time or even to the zoo,…

We’ve had a dry spring at Footlights. It seems that when the forecast is promising rain our little neck of the woods gets nothing so I have to drag my hose around my beds and water the latest newcomers that I allow a year to establish themselves. This week we had a run of storms….

The week after Easter Hubs and I took a little getaway to a part of America I’ve never been, the Carolinas. After a quick flight we waited almost 3 hours at Charleston airport for our rental car.  It was Easter Monday and some golfing event had just finished so the place was simmering with discontent;…

I’ve had lower back pain since my mid to late twenties. Everything to do with over flexibility, high arabesques, dazzling contretemps, amazingly flat turn outs and a lot of peer pressure to keep my place on company; to be the best. For almost two decades my body gave its all and then the creaking and…