Happy Valentine's Day, my daughter reminded me recently on her amazing awakened living community space that its also "Give a book day" http://chiarairvine.com/awakened-living-community/

If you weren't aware of this please check it out HERE I love that it fall on valentines day. In my little town of Duras, the mayor organised a corner under the covered market place. The idea is you bring a book, in my case sometimes French, sometimes English which anyone can take away & read. Then hopefully returning the book or replacing it with another. So far its working really well and the cupboard is always more than 3/4 full. So give a book today rather than the predictable box of chocolates.

Great read & based around our area in France.

The weather is wet and windy here, but we are warm and cosy indoors our log fire is blazing. My thoughts are firmly with our loved ones in the UK, and I realise how lucky we are. 

Its the perfect conditions for John & I to press on with our writing, no outside jobs needing our attention, then the phone rings, and a friend calls, her husband is ill and feeling very low, so what does a good friend do? well its a no brainer, you put your apron on and bake a lovely cake, then waterproof coats on the cake fully protected, we head off in the car. The smiles that greet us as we turn up on our friends doorstep says it all. A couple of hours spent enjoying tea and cake and a good chat, this is the best medicine I know.

So keep safe everyone, keep dry, and before you know it, the sunshine will come back and this will all be a soggy memory.

Yummy sponge