Category Archives: News

Amused to find this in the “Wordplay” bit of the Guardian yesterday: Wordpool In each case find the correct definition: LILA a) Middle Eastern hammock b) cosmic Dance of the Supreme Spirit c) lilo for ladies d) liqueur made from … Continue reading →

After 10 weeks away from work with Official Exhaustion, Satyalila returned to work after new year. She was delighted to find that she had been Entirely Dispensible at the bookshop, which had a fantastic Christmas without her. Liz, Joe and … Continue reading →

Wednesday 23 November saw the first outing of Satyalila’s birthday scarf – appropriately enough on her 40 and a halfth birthday! The scarf, a gift in kit form (ie wool and needles!) from Judith and Dave, was knitted up by … Continue reading →

Satyalila has been delighted to welcome a number of visitors to the Garret Hermitage. So far only one has had to be forcibly ejected! A small mouse, name of Millie (or possibly Miller) took up residence behind the fridge until … Continue reading →

Satyalila was reading in bed at 11.30 last night when she heard footsteps on the stairs. Usually such noises terminate in a jangle of keys at Paul’s door (on the next landing down) but this time they didn’t… The steps … Continue reading →

Reeling, a bit, at the prospect of not going back to the shop for three weeks as the Doctor has signed me off with “nervous exhaustion”… It will be almost the end of November by then and the middle of … Continue reading →

Well, I mean, CAN you call it news when you don’t actually DO anything? All I’ve done for days is sleep, drink tea, eat, read and fiddle about between-times on the computer. Pasting/posting/”blogging” things into this virutal and interactive scrapbook … Continue reading →

Thank you so much, Eryl and Andy, for this fab website-present! I love it….

Well, I’ve been in retreat (oh, all right, ill) in the Garret hermitage for days now. Not quite retreat, because of welcome visitors to bring supplies and drink tea but lots of contemplation of the rooftop which I can see … Continue reading →