The last couple of weeks have been busy with buying, wrapping and sorting out Christmas presents. I decorated the tree last week, and just for a day or two I hung about thirty miniature portraits on it. It’s called ‘A miniature painter’s Christmas tree’.However, increasingly over the past few months, the osteoarthritis in my knee […]

The other week we prepared the two banana plants for the winter by cutting the stalks right down and removing the leaves. Just in time as today the temperature has gone down to minus 8 degrees. Brrr! This is a view outside in the country today. Our Canadian holiday seems like a long ago dream […]