Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants is a wonderfully inspiring nursery Our courtyard garden has been a joy this year with a froth of white and pink cosmos and Japanese anemones practically taking over wherever they can. This garden is surrounded by rather an ugly...
I am not sure when I started hunting for old linen pieces, sheets, kitchen textiles and so on. I just know that I love this fabric and I have always enjoyed wearing it, which is why I look permanently creased but I am told by my family to refer to my crumpled state as...
Dahlias almost as tall as I am! After the rush to buy my Claude Monet’s Garden Silk Collection, I thought I had better speed up my plans for the next collection. I’m thrilled they have proved so popular. As I explained in a previous Jotting, I...
It has been a while since I attended a real live auction, but I can still remember the feeling from all those years ago. We had been living in Pinks Barn for some months and had completely bare stone floors throughout downstairs. Not pretty stone either, just old...
Ahem, not wishing to show off but I do have a whole shelf of my own books! I cannot describe the puffed-out chest and butterflies when my first book was published. It was something I did not expect to happen, and I can assure you that my father and a couple of my...
Now you see why we haven’t been eating the kitchen table for some days… What is it about gazing at a collection of threads? I am sure I am not the only stitcher or sewer who loves to collect threads to use in their stitching, but actually just loves to...
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