It was below freezing when I got up early last Saturday morning at 6.30 for a hot chocolate. When I returned to bed, the sun was just risi...

Mid-may and the verges are spattered with Queen Anne’s Lace and sundry other wild pretties, overlooked by copious clouds of foaming hawthorn...

Well, that's been a bit of a hefty blog break. Busy times. Sometime last month I had a birthday, and as some people may know, ...

 I wonder if all the lovely people who left such kind messages and sent sweet emails about our dear little Mouse will ever know jus...

I haven't really painted since taking up needle felting over two years ago. I was very, very tired of it; one of my earliest memories i...