My owl design with poor Alba in the background. I am referring you in the first instance to my Jotting about Alba, my special barn owl and then I can tell you about the next chapter. Some months after Alba was settled on her woody perch in our green oak barn, I was...
This will be my last Jotting until the New Year, so I wish you and yours a healthy and happy time at Christmas and during the year to come. This year, the whole family is coming to us for the festivities and staying from Christmas Eve through to Boxing Day afternoon –...
Not quite designed for the village parking bays! Bill and I have now lived in this lovely Cotswold town for 43 years and there has never been a day when I regretted the move. My husband worked for Lloyds Bank in those days, and he was moved to the branch in nearby...
I was approached by Sally some years ago when she showed me an amazing old sampler. It had been in her family for some years and was particularly special as she can remember it hung in her aunt’s house when she visited for tea. Aged around six, she recalls staring at...
The mosaic that stands above the sideboard in the kitchen. I seem to have a chicken collection. This started by accident when my daughter Louise bought me a beautiful painted bird for my birthday about 10 years ago to sit in our newly fitted kitchen. Since then, the...
Bill put the new pianos through their paces for three hours! My mother-in-law had been trying to get rid of her upright piano for years, so I knew that Bill would arrive at our first home with a piano. Finally, his mother could rearrange her front room! I loved...
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