A jar of raw honey was in my mail yesterday. This unexpected gift was from Gen and made me so happy…  

A tough looking mid-aged man asked the bus driver ‘Does this bus go to Fairy Meadow?’, that made me smile.  

We just ate our first harvest of the beans that Chris’s father and I planted in April. To be honest, I wasn’t at all keen on having beans in our vegetable patch as I thought they are easy to come by and growing my choice of beet root felt more satisfying. I used to take extra [...]

Today I received all the boxes that Chris and I shipped from Tokyo at the end of July. Opening boxes full of my favorite books was just like seeing my old friends! I happily spent all morning working out my bookshelf’s new seating plan. It was a lovely way to start my day.  

I often see parachutes in the local sky during the morning and dawn and I get excited every time I see them. I wonder what it feels like to be floating in the sky and I like to think these parachutes are delivering some presents from above the clouds.