One of so many light houses! I have been teased by many of you when we meet at shows or other events that I do like to travel, and we are hardly ever at home! I am not going to apologise, but it is true that we love to travel. I have mentioned before that Bill did not...
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...
I have just been explaining in writing how to stitch a pretty little pansy design to the members of The Cross Stitch Guild (we send a magazine to members five times a year full of cross stitch patterns). I get to do the designing, so I get to choose what I stitch....
Sadly not a new ground cover plant, it is rampaging ground elder… With the use of social networks and finding myself amongst the Instagram generation by mistake, I thought I should come clean. Since I discovered that people buy gorgeous stuff from places like...
I like to hunt for treasures in person when I can but have developed a bit of an online crush on a site called The Linen Garden. I started by purchasing some small watercolours to add to the newly decorated bathroom and now thoroughly enjoy looking through owner...
We actually managed to tire Monty out! When Bill and I bought Pinks Barn in the early 80s I was thrilled to discover it had stone floors. Not very pretty ones actually, more like paving slabs inherited from the days when Pinks Barn was a restaurant. The reason for my...
I suppose this all started with Domestic Science at school (dare I say it – back in the sixties!) and we were always told that if the oven was on, all the shelves should be full so that all the heat was used. This must seem very old-fashioned now and I cannot say that...
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