A day full of twiggery!

A day full of twiggery!

Beautiful shades of willow. I have to write to tell you about a day course I attended last week, taking with me Jenny Dixon, Editor for the Cross Stitch Guild and long-time chum. Layered up against the cold, we visited Damson Farm just outside Bath. We joined Alison...
Hunting for stuff & chair wrangling

Hunting for stuff & chair wrangling

Cotswold Reclamation… a wonderful hunting ground! At last, the effects of a ghastly winter cold followed by a grotty chest are leaving me and I am looking forward again. It is still cold here in Fairford (an unlikely frost pocket) and I know that I have to keep...
Quite a year in the garden

Quite a year in the garden

As so many of us in the northern hemisphere will have been studying seed catalogues and are poised to fill our seed trays, I think it is a moment to look back as well as look forward. It is too easy to find fault with what we did last year (how many orange dahlias?)...
A Snowdrop Walk

A Snowdrop Walk

Today Bill and I walked our cockerpoo Monty along a lovely road just outside Fairford where, if he is lucky, he will see some croaky pheasants who will need sorting out!  It was a glorious day and I have never seen such a carpet of snowdrops and I wanted to share them...
Looking back to the festivities

Looking back to the festivities

I am writing this in February, and I hope you can see that I am quietly hiding my shame because I have been out of the loop of late. I always find the early months of the year tough, but it helps to look back on such a lovely time… Before Christmas, Bill and I were...
Now, about my owl…

Now, about my owl…

I suppose I have always loved owls. When Bill and I were moved to the Cotswolds by Lloyds Bank over 40 years ago, it was like a dream come true – we were living in the country, in an old cottage in a real village. When we walked into town in the evenings, we could...