If I need inspiration…

If I need inspiration…

There are days – not too many, thank heavens – when I do not have any creative ideas and need to leave the house for a bit. At moments like these, I like to treat myself to a visit to The Burford Garden Company, just over our border into Oxfordshire.My husband Bill is...
Looking through my photos

Looking through my photos

I was looking through my photos and deciding that I probably need a bit of a sort out as I now have 27,000! As often happens when I try to sort things out, I drifted from the matter in hand and started looking through the images. I soon found some shots of dragonflies...
A New-look Courtyard

A New-look Courtyard

Now this is complicated to say the least. It all starts when I decide that my vast kitchen island is far too big, is scruffy and needs to be replaced. I find the replacement at The Cotswold Company (I could buy everything in this shop!) but what to do with the great...
A new plan for the garden

A new plan for the garden

Contemplating the new pond! The magic begins… I am making my planting plans. I was determined to turn over a new leaf this year and make sure I am better organised. It’s almost March as I write, and there is no sign of this working yet. Life seems as hectic as...
Pots & pansies

Pots & pansies

I have just been explaining in writing how to stitch a pretty little pansy design to the members of The Cross Stitch Guild (we send a magazine to members five times a year full of cross stitch patterns). I get to do the designing, so I get to choose what I stitch....
I thought you should see the truth

I thought you should see the truth

Sadly not a new ground cover plant, it is rampaging ground elder… With the use of social networks and finding myself amongst the Instagram generation by mistake, I thought I should come clean. Since I discovered that people buy gorgeous stuff from places like...