Mellifluous Dark

Well now, it has been a while. Plus ça change and all that...  I won't try to play catch up, but if anyone is reading this: hello from t...

This time last year, we were in tee shirts and other cotton garb. We revelled in the sunshine. Oh, how warm it was! How burned was my skin (...

...but I bloody love the Olympics.  London, GBR, Ennis, the cyclists, the rowers, Danny Boyle's opening ceremony – just superb.  GO GBR...

When people who knew about my history of clinical insomnia found out I was pregnant, a few said, hey, at least I knew what it was like to be...

There are Union Jack flags everywhere: on products sold in Ikea, Marks and Spencer, Poundland, Waitrose, House of Fraser... every shop has...

This is one of them. I wish I still did martial arts on days like this. I miss it. 

The weather in April last year was blistering (for me with my ridiculously sun-sensitive skin, anyway). It was the "hottest April...

I encountered this video by NAPCAN, an Australian organisation, while researching some extremely interesting stuff for work I'm d...

There are blossoms scattered where I wheeled L in her pushchair this afternoon. The sky was slate grey, water dripped off her rain cover (an...

A very high tide © Mellifluous Dark There has been talk of drought in these here parts. And, since the hosepipe ban that started at the ...