Liberty Nimmo helps us exhale with her writing. It isn't here to confound or baffle; it is here to create a weighted breath where one can see the wood from the trees and lose yourself, if only briefly, in the world of Nimmo and her everyday goings-on.

These weeks in March have hung on a knife edge. Now, I am ready to cast off my thermals and reach for the sun cream and, a moment later, the fire is lit all day and the hatches remain battened against the driving wind and rain. Life can be so full of contradictions and it seems that March this year is proving to be no different. The first glimpse of daffodils begins like a rare discovery, ditto the cherry blossom. And then, seemingly within a day, they transform into a check-list; daffodils

'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water; after enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.’ So said the great Taoist thinker Lao Tzu. I don’t know where I sit on the enlightenment scale, but I have taken his advice and recently found myself chopping a lot of wood.