I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I haven’t watched the news for three years. Since I had the sproglet. Or read the news section of a newspaper, looked on a news website or listened on the radio. Do you know that post-childbirth feeling, when you are in absolute awe of this precious amazing incredible thing … Continue reading #SaveSyriasChildren
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Notes from a summer: London Wetland Centre
Ahoy there! Hello! How are you? It’s been ages, I know. I fell off grid a bit, this August. Technology (such as this dear old laptop on which I write all my blog posts) becoming substantially less appealing than lying outside in the sun on a picnic blanket. Anyway, such times have come to an … Continue reading Notes from a summer: London Wetland Centre
Dresses for girls: homemade baby presents
A momentous event occurred a few weeks ago. My sister gave birth to a baby girl. Of course, every birth is pretty momentous -- a life is begun where before there wasn't one -- but this was especially astounding as the baby was the first of her generation to not be a boy... Between me … Continue reading Dresses for girls: homemade baby presents
Food collaging: my July harvest
I’m completely addicted to taking courses. Photography, blogging, garden design, how to rear alpacas… …you name it, if I’m half interested and there’s a course I could possibly take, chances are I’m going to sign up. (I often think that if I won the lottery, the best thing of all would just be to take … Continue reading Food collaging: my July harvest
Feasting on sour cherries: morello cherry compote recipe
It was a bumper harvest from our little morello cherry tree this year. We planted it two years ago, in the front garden, and – until now – it had spectacularly failed to either grow a lot or produce very much fruit. But, back in Spring, I was excited to see the branches weighted down … Continue reading Feasting on sour cherries: morello cherry compote recipe
A bit of this and a bit of that
These long, drowsy, lethargic days of summer tend to disappear in a bit of a haze, the weeks melding together. June is over before I’d hardly realised it had begun. Emails back up in my inbox awaiting replies; text messages go unanswered for weeks; my laptop is checked perfunctorily in the evenings. Any spare moments … Continue reading A bit of this and a bit of that
At Blogtacular
Conferences don’t tend to be my cup of tea. For a start, the cups of tea are always tiny. You have to drink at least three to equal a normal mug size. But it’s not the tiny teas that are the worst thing. Not by a long shot. It’s all the bloody networking. It reminds … Continue reading At Blogtacular
Bishop’s palace and gardens
Perhaps this is a terrible indictment on the state of education in the UK, but the extent of my knowledge about the bishop of Bath and Wells (of whom, presumably, there have been many) is his appearance in Blackadder. You know the one, the "baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells" who turns up and demands … Continue reading Bishop’s palace and gardens
Cotswold Wildlife Park: where garden design meets rhinos
Over the half term week we had a holiday – of sorts – down in Somerset. I say "of sorts" as the kids were both a little bit grouchy and clingy for much of the week and I returned home feeling somewhat exhausted. We were staying in a wonderful, atmospheric holiday cottage with a huge, … Continue reading Cotswold Wildlife Park: where garden design meets rhinos
You call this June?
June eh? I've got to confess, I've had the heating on these past two evenings. And looking out of the window, I can see that one of my tomato plants has been blown over in the winds. Sigh. Good old English summers... Moaning aside, I dashed out of the back door the other evening, and … Continue reading You call this June?
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