I’ve been off the radar so far as the internet and social media goes for a few days which was a wrench at first and then transitioned into a great relief. It has been quite bizarre to pop the…
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Just a quickie – I’ve had the lid off this blog and have done some tinkering – you should now find it a lot easier to subscribe to this website via your preferred blog reader – alternatively you could…
Some weeks are definitely longer than others, aren’t they. Here we are again though (I was on the slow train, for sure), it’s Friday evening and the weekend starts here (yay)! If you fancy doing a photography e-course led…
I’m so confused! It’s autumn, non? Well, sometimes it is but today it seems to be summer again – today I saw a butterfly, two bumble bees and I think possibly a leprechaun (or it might have been a frog). I hope nature doesn’t…
This past couple of days I’ve been feeling pretty awful; tonsillitis and I can hardly hear! The only up-side to this is I have had lots of time to trawl the internet, and here’s what I found… I want…
Now that the weather has finally decided it really is autumn rather than a scorching hot summer (that was a rather unexpected but lovely few days, wasn’t it) I have become wistful for those lazy, long days of sun,…
One of the places we visited in the Lake District was Grasmere, and I feel I need to dedicate a whole post to the delicacy that is Sarah Nelson’s Grasmere Gingerbread. Oh. My. God. It is amazing – I’m…
Back as a kid in the 80s I remember going on school trips to the Tudor House museum in Southampton (much of the city was flattened by enemy bombs during WWII so this was one of the few ‘old’…
It’s hard to believe but the brilliantly-named Queen Anne’s Lace is actually a form of wild carrot! It’s one of my favourite, favourite plants – I love how it appears to be topped with a little cage, bulging with…
It’s finally feeling a lot more like summer (i.e. it’s not raining and a degree or two warmer) but there’s definitely an air of late-summer now, don’t you think? What really helps me to get to sleep at night…