The house didn’t get cleaned because I took all the time I needed to relish the crisp morning air as I walked the dogs. Then I stopped to...

It could be Zara’s big nose resting on my knee in the early morning, which makes me aware of her liquid brown eyes telling me it’s time...

Bear with me, I want to tell you something about surrender… Oh, I know how that sounds, but I’m not trying to be a drama queen. It’s just...

This is the woman who was completely certain that her pregnant sows should and would have their piglets safely in the surroundings of the...

I’m not sure that I told you but… when all the world seems a hopeless jumble and people are sad and frightened I never thought I could...

The first stroke of luck is that I have found my way to a tiny pocket of Portugal out of the noise of the world. The second is that I...

Maybe today is the day to acknowledge how much courage we need to get through every day. It might not seem that way, but the mind plays a...

The delicious autumn rain brought mushrooms in abundance. Magically, they push through the soft soil casting aside clods of earth to...

Bear with me whilst I tell you something about my rescue kitty cats. A couple of things I’d like to admit is that these two little alley...

Did I love it enough... those years when the rain fell steady and relentless, pounding on the roof, finding any crevices to drop through...

Hey! How many magical moments have you enjoyed today? None? Surely not. I don’t believe that. Bear with me, but didn’t you see the peach...

Summer is drifting away, but autumn has yet to show its face. These shoulder months are delicious in their gentle fragrance and promise...

A dear friend gave me a book for Christmas called, Wintering by Katherine May: the power of rest and retreat in difficult times. Turning...

First, I must thank you for the kind and thoughtful comments and emails I’ve received since revealing that Lily had gone walkabout. I am...

We diverge from pigs this time… to cats and the Cat Shack. I mentioned briefly in the last blog we have adopted two alley cats, which are...

There have been a variety of excitements going on in our little self-sufficient smallholding in recent months. But nothing I felt...

Life is full of ups and downs, some major and some minor! Nonetheless we aim for harmony and balance and, more often than not, we are...

Apologies for not keeping everyone up to speed during Sauce and Scoffer’s pregnancy but there has been little to tell that is different...

They say Happiness is an inside job… and in the case of my pigs that comes from tummies filled with good food! And...they have been very...

The trees are heavy with pears and the pigs are standing underneath them expectantly! Squawking at the top of their lungs the azure blue...