Special holiday souvenirs – probably not dishwasher safe! Bill and I have just come back from a fab trip to Uzbekistan, and I have brought home some special souvenirs. (I do try not to get carried away with shopping when we are travelling as I need more stuff in Pinks...
It is all go here at Pinks. The house needs quite a lot of maintenance, so I decided to go mad and have new carpets upstairs while we were at it. A great idea at the time, but madness when it came to taking everything out of each room. One of the rooms is my workroom,...
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...
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...
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?)...
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...
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