Setting off from Vancouver for our journey to Alaska There has been a certain amount of déjà vu writing these words as, at last, I am going to tell you about our visit to Canada last September. This time I did manage to board our ship for Alaska! For those of you who...
This may be an extraordinary thing to say but it is rare to be completely bowled over by the design, the planting, the range of plants and simply pristine environment of a garden. Quite often only parts of a garden suit our taste but Butchart garden in Victoria, on...
I have mentioned before that Bill, my husband, simply loves to travel. A far cry from when we met in 1977, when he did not have a passport and had no intention of leaving the UK. I took him on a trip to Boulogne as a day tripper and, as they say, the rest is history....
I should start by explaining that Thyme in this context is a glorious country estate near my home in Gloucestershire. It is a hotel and restaurant but so much more. I have lunched there a couple of times and by lucky chance had a private tour of the kitchen garden and...
In March Nicola Parkman (from Hands across the Sea) asked me to take part in her incredibly exciting and enterprising Sampler Weekend at the Hilton Hotel Swindon, to be held at the end of September 2023. Living so close to the Event was a blessing and I was happy to...
I am a very lucky woman and try not to take the men in my life for granted. I have to say that my brother-in-law Dave is a cut above. In past years Dave has travelled from Suffolk to help me in the garden for a few days – I am not certain why. The fact that his wife,...
A shop in the antique quarter – how could I choose? I had rather random thing happen as a result of going to a needlework fair in Dusseldorf in 1988. It was the year before the Berlin Wall came down. It is a long story, but I was working a show in Germany and met an...
Batty settled on the window frame – I promise he wasn’t in any real danger of being impaled on the needle minder below! Imagine the scene… I am in my tiny workroom one evening, mellow with a glass of white wine and happily typing some words for...
Thrilled with the new windows! Our decision to invest a large sum of money in changing the windows and doors here at Pinks Barn was initiated by our son James. I was bemoaning the fact that we had been so cold last winter and the high cost of the heating our home,...
The legendary Golden Temple didn’t disappoint Bill and I have visited this fantastic continent three times now and I am still aching to go again. I know that the films about the Marigold Hotel were intended as entertainment and did not show all the faces of this...
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