New beginnings
Starting with a particularly nice sunrise with an aeroplane trail that reminded me that sunrise is getting later and later. I like...
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Tia's Simple Pleasures -
Writing, living, loving
- Jul 24, 2022
- 1 min
Building a Future
First of all, a little advertising moment! Building a Future is now available on Amazon KIndle. I hope you'll like this one. A house...
- Jul 20, 2022
- 2 min
Early one morning...
The weather has broken, but it isn't that simple, is it? Outside, it is 17c, with a lovely fresh breeze. In the living room where I'm...
- Jul 6, 2022
- 1 min
Are you sprawling comfortably?
Then, as those of us of a certain age will say automatically, I'll begin. This is Willow, sprawled on a quilt in the sunshine, as relaxed...
- Jul 3, 2022
- 2 min
The Seagull's Story
Look closely at this picture because it’s far more than it seems. Look between the silver metal cylinders on the roof that vent all that...
- Jun 23, 2022
- 1 min
D is for Duck Squad?
Just a quick post, but a nice happy story with an aaah factor. ttps://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/20230896.ducklings-trapped-a338-bour...
- Jun 21, 2022
- 1 min
Midsummer sunrise
Here, for everyone who slept through it, is the midsummer sunrise taken from my garden. Beautiful, and yet somehow sad, because from now...
- Jun 19, 2022
- 1 min
Reasons to be cheerful...
Research is a funny thing. You find yourself uncovering things you never expected to and today's discovery is a calendar of celebrations....
- Jun 14, 2022
- 1 min
Summer's here at last.
Isn't it a relief that the weather's finally warming up? I give it a week until we're all complaining about the heat. That's okay because...
- Jun 11, 2022
- 2 min
Being a crafty sew and sew...
Okay, I'll admit it. I'm hooked on quilting and embroidery and just about any form of two dimensional sewing. All my chairs have...
- Jun 5, 2022
- 2 min
Please do not buy or borrow this book at the moment.
This isn't a post I want to write. I want to assure everyone that I've done all I could, but I need to ask you NOT to buy or borrow 'A...
- Jun 1, 2022
- 1 min
Birdwatching the easy way
I love watching birds. They’re so graceful and they have a freedom that I can only imagine as they soar and swoop. In an ideal world,...
- May 29, 2022
- 2 min
The Bear went over the mountain
The bear goes over the mountain… Do you remember that song from when you were a kid? If so, did you ever feel sorry for him because...
- May 24, 2022
- 2 min
The best way to buy my books
As far as I’m concerned, anyone who’s enjoyed my work enough to decide to follow my blog is a friend I haven’t had the chance to meet in...
- May 22, 2022
- 2 min
I don't want to have it all!
‘Having it all. ‘Living the dream.’ ‘Living it large.’ You hear all these phrases so often but surely I can’t be the only one saying that...
- May 17, 2022
- 1 min
An art-ful recycling trip
I live in an amazing part of the world. Where else would I spot an art exhibition on my way to putting the green recycling bin out? It’s...
- May 7, 2022
- 1 min
What could possibly go wrong?
These adorable little fuzzies and their VERY protective mum and dad are in their favourite nursery pool. Not too deep, nicely sun warmed,...
- May 4, 2022
- 2 min
Do it later; or maybe not at all
I was browsing through the Audible Plus catalogue the other day. (Hi, I’m Tia, I’m an audiobook addict…) and came across an audiobook...
- Apr 30, 2022
- 3 min
What a wonderful world
Some days seem to come with a soundtrack. If I’m lucky, it’s Matt Monro singing ‘On Days Like these’ or Lou Reed singing ‘Just a Perfect...
- Apr 26, 2022
- 1 min
Whistling a happy tune...
I’ve always loved old musicals, and one of my favourites is ‘The King and I’ even though I cry my heart out at the ending evry time. (And...
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