Sunday morning at the cabin and maybe one half of a degree above zero. I could see my cabin cleansing fire of yesterday still smouldering, so I decided to keep cleaning up some of the dead wood over our five acres
Well if you can believe this! Chloe and I packed up a weekend's worth of clothes, food and the paddle board for a lovely Easter break at the cabin. A lush, semi arid, mid-province, late spring sunshine, lakes, wood fire, peace,
It's a bank holiday weekend here and I've been dying to get away for a few days, and I wanted to visit my daughter Kerstin, but I also wanted to spend some time at my cabin. I decided to take
Here's a turn-up for the books guys! Suddenly I got the weekend totally free and so off to the cabin I went. Two hundred km out of town to mile 120 on the railway. That's where I was. In the gloriously dry and
Dear rest, It's so peaceful here. It's quiet and uncomplicated and serene. I love it. Rosy and fresh and cool. Like a good book. Like a song. A bowl of really sweet cherries. Yeah, that's it. Cherries, like cherries. Postcard: Acrylic paint, shadow play, plus a collaged copy of
Oh boy, we didn't want to leave! Sunday came around way too soon, but still time for one more lazy morning and one more walk around the cabin, then we cleaned up and shut the cabin down and took our
We're back from a glorious weekend at the cabin. I've just downloaded hundreds of photos
It's time. It's time to open the cabin for the year. All winter the cabin sits in a frozen valley 200km from the door of my city house. It's still chilly up there, but the promise of spring is in the
...it would look like this: There would be a huge open barn with a chandelier swinging from the ceiling. Lovely, fresh organic produce would be available seasonally. Every inch would be lovely to look at. It would be family welcoming with lots of play
I spent a few tranquil hours at the cabin today. To some, driving 200km to get out of town for a day sounds a bit like hard work, and Robert said it's like driving from Oxford to Scotland and back,