Ill: Tove Jansson In coping with various changes in life, I often find my thoughts wandering off to the Moomin Valley and the characters...

  I added to my collection of Moomin mugs today. I blame my tea-loving Swedish friend Lena (also a water colour artist) for the temptation,...

In comments to my previous post I was asked to post photos of all my Moomin mugs. As my collection is no larger than nine, I did not find th...

  I knew that Moomin was in town (with a temporary Moomin Pop Up Shop, only for a month or so); but I was totally unprepared to also ...

As usual, I spent New Year’s Eve at home with a few friends. Three of us used to be neighbours in the same building from the mid 1980s and ...

One of my most frequently opened cupboards is this one – where a whole shelf is set aside for TEA… I always buy loose leaf tea, and mostly ...

In my last Booking-Through-Thursday post, Allowed To Peek , I quoted from Moominland Winter by Tove Jansson. It came to mind for me again t...

  Do you cheat and peek at the ends of books? (Come on, be honest.) Not as a rule. Does it ever happen? Of course it does. With novels, it...