So, my plan for next year is to grow as much edible as I can in my small garden, and stock my kitchen cupboards with homemade jams and...

….the Horse Chestnut leaves are beginning to turn. They’re always the first to open, and always the first leaves to be lost. So, I’m sad...

There's much talk about the renaissance of vinyl records that's been going on for a good few years now, but what about books? There was a...

In the white painted wall in my yard (soon to be repainted) there are, growing in cracks in the wall, some rather nice flowers. They're...

The end of the month of May has seen me reflecting. My parents live next to a river-more specifically part of it, an old millstream-in...

Last night I went to see the film of Raynor Winn's 2018 memoir of the same name. I had read and enjoyed the book soon after it came out,...

I am, or should I say (sort of) was addicted to Diet Coke. And, it should be said, Coke Zero, Pepsi Max, Barr's Cola, etc. and so on, (to...

This blog has so far lacked a purpose (in some ways) but I now have a theme to serve me from now until the end of 2026. Like many in the...

The yard has been resurfaced, but not a lot else has happened... until now! More to follow.

Happy New Year reader! Well, I have been neglecting this blog since January 2022, haven't I? You could make a very reasonable argument...

I managed half an hour today tidying the garden. Plenty more to do, but that will be next weekend.... an apple tree to prune in a 'kill...

Yesterday, in the Memorial Hall, was the United Churches Christmas Fayre. I’d never been before, but my friend Anne, who lives nearby and...

So, tidying up the garden for winter started yesterday rather than last weekend, with the delay being procrastination as much as...

A couple of years back I bought a 2lb loaf tin, and some liners from our local Poundland. I can’t recall if it cost £1 or £2 for the loaf...

I mentioned in a previous post that I have a nineteen sixties copy of the seminal Mrs Beeton’s book of cookery and household management....

So, we’ve come around to the final weekend in October, the end of British Summer Time (BST). It’s time to tidy up and shut down my small...

This time of year, and as nights draw in and the wood burner stops being a redundant lump of iron and starts to be the life and soul of...

Dear Reader, Welcome to my first ever attempt at a blog! I’m not sure what got you here-a Google algorithm or maybe simple curiosity, but...