LUPUS IN FLIGHT

Today is the last day of April 2021. Onwards to May, although the wisteria is already scenting our doorstep, framing our view of the outside...

This morning’s strange dreams were interrupted by a phone call. ‘I’m going to make you very happy,’ said my immunology nurse (after commenti...

Today is exactly one year to the day when Boris J & Matt H decreed lockdown in the UK - doors closed, windows open a tiny crack to let t...

I stumble on a root as I pass the prettiest cottage, the one that makes me look twice, anyway; there's no one around and then, suddenly,...

‘A nightingale sang in Berkeley Squaaaare!' I've been burbling this song all day long, and I have no idea why... suddenly the line b...

This afternoon, I had my first vaccine jab. Twelve weeks to go before vaccine part two. Which means it will be May. Imagine that. Imagine wi...

'A surprising cluster of novels and fairy tales are set in the snow. Our knowledge of winter is a fragment of  childhood, almost innate....

It takes a long time. I wander for hours, years, miles through countries, continents. Sometimes there is water, sometimes sand. I return to ...

It is the winter solstice today. The shortest day of the year and also the special meeting after 800 years between Jupiter and Saturn. An as...

A sad love curls around me like a cat with no name, I knit on into the darkness.  When the wind howls without and my feet stay within, I bow...