A Life Without Chocolate

Daily Prompt: Five a Day You’ve being exiled to a private island, and your captors will only supply you with five foods. What do you pick? I am going to assume that my captors merely wish to isolate me and not to kill  me, so the island has an ample fresh water supply. There will be …

Warm, salty, lobster-flavoured Sanday

Daily Prompt: Local Flavor Write a piece about a typically “local” experience from where you come from as though it’s an entry in a travel guide. I know that this does not quite fit the brief but we are a small island of around 150 properties, with 500 or so people living in them. Facilities are …

Time to Kill

You’re never alone (or bored) with a camera

Little Women and Many-hued Fairies

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread–and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness–
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

Alone again, naturally

I’m in the kitchen

Ménage à dix

HUGE post: dogs, cats, tears, laughter… and chooks! Lots of cute pictures