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...
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...
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...
Because our home is called Pinks Barn, I like to plant the garden in a range of pinks, lilacs, soft blues and mauves but this year I seem to have gone orange and this is not my favourite colour! I think I must have lost more of my dahlias than I realised, and the...
My grandson Felix, very proud to have a sister! I thought it was about time I brought you up to date with some of the goings-on in the Greenoff family. I so do not want you to think that I really spend my life just stitching, gardening and drinking wine… I know that...
In late 2021 Bill and I took a group of stitchers to Northern Cyprus for a stitching retreat. We had a wonderful time, despite a couple of days that that can only be described as monsoon conditions. The venture was challenging before we even set off as we had to...
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