Hi everyone and hope you're all keeping well ! Sorry it's been so long, but I have been on a 6 week round the world trip ~ I told myself that everyone has to do one once in their lifetime, but sitting here shattered at my comfortably messy kitchen table all I can say is NEVER AGAIN ! With delays and transit times I arrived in Colombia after 40 hours without sleep. So rather than arriving at 10 pm and being met by my friend over there for a few drinks and a proper nights sleep to adjust, I arrived alone sometime after 4 am, unpacked on auto, and crashed out in a zombie no-mind state. After t...

Yes, next Thursday will be the shortest day of the year ! Yay ! Then the days slowly get longer and ( hopefully a bit warmer.) well, for all of us down under in the Southern Hemisphere of course as this is our Winter Solstice. In times past this was a much more important celebration. The return of Summer was not a foregone conclusion. Just perhaps, Winter would stay forever ! In that case, definitely you’d celebrate with a genuine sense of relief when you saw the Summer Sun was slowly stirring and thinking about getting up earlier :-) Really the Winter Solstice is the start of the New Year,...