Staircase 9 17

Staircase 9 17
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About our blog
  • Keep in touch
  • Reading List
  • Our book

Category: Summer

Posted on July 22, 2022September 25, 2022 by Staircase 9 17

Summertime and butterflies

Pink lemonade in a glass jug wiht a vase of pink flowers

Hello,   We hope you're very well and that you're managing to keep cool if you're somewhere that's been affected by the recent heatwaves. Summertime and Butterflies: Summertime and butterflies go together and, if you're in the UK, perhaps you'd like to take part in the Big Butterfly Count, which is underway until Sunday, August 7th.…

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp
  • Email

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted on July 1, 2021July 4, 2021 by Staircase 9 17

Maple ginger grapefruit cooler

Hello, Happy Canada Day to all our Canadian friends! What better way to celebrate the day than with a refreshing summer cooler, sweetened with maple syrup? Ingredients...

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp
  • Email

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted on August 1, 2017August 1, 2017 by Staircase 9 17

In the summertime

Dear Sam, Buon viaggio for your trip to Italy.  I'm taking a break during August, too, so I'll be back here on 1st September. I hope we'll both be inspired by our travels and full of fresh ideas! Much love, Claire  

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp
  • Email

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted on July 21, 2017June 17, 2022 by Staircase 9 17

Kids and kindness

Dear Claire.   Happy summer! I  think this is the week when the children break up from school in the UK, though they've been out here for a few weeks already. Which means we're at that moment when, after those first heady days of the holidays, comes a question that I'm sure you'll recall: 'What…

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp
  • Email

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted on July 7, 2017July 18, 2020 by Staircase 9 17

“Fresh air impoverishes the doctor”

Dear Sam,   How is your Charity Miles fitness regime going? Well done in signing up for it - I think anything which offers an incentive to exercise can only be a good thing and if you can help others at the same time, even better! Locally, there's something along the same lines called The…

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Print
  • Pinterest
  • WhatsApp
  • Email

Like this:

Like Loading...

Recent posts

  • A recipe for roasted nutty granola February 3, 2023
  • Friendship is good for you January 20, 2023
  • Seasonal stories December 23, 2022
  • Christmas ideas: how to care for yourself, the earth and your wallet December 9, 2022
  • A recipe for sweet and salty chocolate bark November 25, 2022
  • Stanley Tucci, Taste and travels through Italy November 9, 2022
  • Live life well in October October 28, 2022
  • A word for every day of the year October 14, 2022
  • A puzzle a day keeps the doctor away September 30, 2022
  • Summertime and butterflies July 22, 2022
  • Feed the birds July 8, 2022
  • Cool as a cucumber June 24, 2022

Categories

  • Advent
  • Adventure
  • Autumn
  • Back to school
  • Birds
  • Blogging
  • Book recommendation
  • Cakes
  • Change
  • Charity
  • Children
  • Christmas
  • Cleaning
  • Community
  • Connections
  • Cooking
  • Creativity
  • Decluttering
  • Decorating
  • Drinks
  • Earth
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Fall
  • Family
  • Farmers Market
  • Fashion
  • Film
  • Fitness
  • Flowers
  • Food
  • Food for thought
  • Friends
  • Fundraising
  • Games
  • Gardening
  • Gifts
  • Giving
  • Gratitude
  • Hannukah
  • Happiness
  • Health
  • Helping others
  • History
  • Hobbies
  • Holiday
  • Inspiration
  • Italy
  • Jane Austen
  • Kindness
  • Learning
  • Lent
  • Literature
  • Little Ideas for Living Life Well
  • Make a difference
  • Mindfulness
  • Mother's Day
  • Music
  • Nature
  • New Year
  • October
  • Online
  • Organizing
  • Our book
  • Overcoming stress
  • Parenting
  • Puzzles
  • Reading
  • Reason to be cheerful
  • Recipe
  • Recycling
  • Reunion
  • Self-care
  • Service
  • Shakespeare
  • Shopping
  • Sleep
  • Something to do
  • Spring
  • Summer
  • Technology
  • Television
  • Thanksgiving
  • Travel
  • Uncategorized
  • Vacation
  • Valentine's Day
  • Volunteering idea
  • Wales
  • Wellbeing
  • Welsh language
  • Wine
  • Winter
  • Women

Follow Blog via Email

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Proudly powered by WordPress.
  • GitHub
  • Powered by WordPress.com.
 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d bloggers like this: