rockpool in the kitchen

Sorry, dear all. No, Lizzy, Granny didn't run to or from the sea; she's rooted in her house, along with her Beloved, tending guests....

Another quickie this. They came, they saw, they showered - luxuriantly - and then they ate - how they ate, very slowly, savouring every bite...

More inter- cultural jottings - from London this time. Rasta man - hair tucked into huge beret - in the street behind Granny's flats wit...

Granny is very sorry. No: she is not dead/disabled/eaten by shark/smothered by figs/drowned in the paddling pool/ whatever you choose - or ...

Disappearance of one of Granny's best - guest - pillowcases off the line. Why? Local linen-thief? Blown off by wind? Beloved removed it?...

Singing Old Macdonald over and over again to Beloved Baby ('with a wuff wuff here and a bleat bleat there') reminds Granny all over ...

Well it went as these things always go. One parent got sick the day after arriving, the other the day before leaving. The two stepdaughters...

Well, Granny is back on her island. A bit bemused, torpid, unsettled- it's taken a week to get herself used to life here again - and wit...

What did Beloved Son-in-law NOT do? He blew bubbles, threw chocolate, recited poetry, played his ukulele, read Cromwell's speech on empt...

Briefest of brief posts from a granny who has been spread very thinly - on and off toast - over the past few weeks. Could this be the highli...

Granny is back in London from heavenly stay in Italy with her three old friends and in two days will be off to Venice for Beloved's birt...

Granny is off tomorrow. She'll spend some of Monday with precious little lone twin then take off at some hideously early hour on Tuesday...

Sumer is icumin in.. no singing though. It was a song wasn't it, usually sung by greenery yallery people dressed up as mediaeval minstr...

Granny sat outside this morning with her breakfast. She'd brewed coffee in a stove-top espresso pot with strong freshly-ground Fairtrade...

Sorry. Granny has not taken the wings of the morning and vanished into outer space - nor has she descended to the uttermost parts of the sea...

Yes well. Granny and Beloved saw. And the dogs escaped again - thanks to Local Yokel's ability to find weak spots in the fence. Beloved ...

Beloved Daughter came: Beloved Daughter left; the usual thing with adult children: first joy then loss again. (Though, to be realistic, much...

No, Granny has not jumped into the sea round Lanzarote and waved goodbye for good. But she was beset by sinus trouble last week and she has ...

Well, Granny is back home, it's chilly and quite cloudy again and she has gone down with a bad cold. It's not clear who started it -...

A brief post from a partly sunny London. Granny has seen them now, both twins, together still if only in photographs (photographs are encour...