The school break is in full-swing. I could use that as an excuse why I haven’t posted, but it would be false as we home-educate and use the current six-weeks to withdraw and relax at home away from the madding and maddening clamour. Pretty soon our beach will be ‘ours’ again; high streets will be less busy and outings will be a pleasure. Meanwhile, we are focused on doing stuff at home and in the garden. I have finished a huge king-size rag quilt, painted the shed, nurtured my plants (I haven’t got very many yet) and concentrated on staying cool. The pergola is going up this week and I will start painting the living room any day now.

With all that domesticity dealt with, I have also published a new article: The Tarot Moon. The moon fascinates me. It is part of that magnificent set of ‘random circumstances’ that make this planet the perfect place to exist. Any closer and our tides would be so dangerous, we’d have to all live on mountain peaks. Any farther away and our oceans would be dead ponds. The moon governs cycles of all kinds. It protects us – look at all those craters and it provides endless speculation. Go read it now.

Me, well I’m back to my domestic pleasures — my daughter has requested a quilt for her birthday. Really, I need to get myself a copy of the Housewives Tarot! That woman there… she needs one of my quilts!