Out in the courtyard at the back of the house. I was not alone! After an exhausting day fighting my computer and almost throwing it out of the window, I took myself to the courtyard with a glass of wine and just sat. I must have been very still because before long Mrs...
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...
Richly decorated prayer hats. Each a treasure in its own right! I simply cannot tell you about my trip to Uzbekistan without talking about the textiles and embroideries – but I would really need to write a book on the subject! So this is just a taste of the fabric and...
You are going to hear so much more about my recent trip to Uzbekistan but for now this is about the blacksmiths, the storks and the scissors. Let us start with the storks. We all recognise these large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills...
Back in May I shared a birthday outing with my chum Jenny. (Our Birthdays collide, although I have to bear in mind that I could actually be her mother! Ho hum.) Jenny had reminded me about the annual plant fair held on the lawns at the front of the Holburne Museum in...
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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