I said I wouldn't buy an Advent Calendar this year, but then I saw this really lovely Grow your Own Advent Calendar advertised and wen...

  In this the last month of Autumn, it's really nice to be really slowing down.   Closing the curtains early, lighting a candle or two...

  I sometimes wonder what photo Alan will choose to put on my little funeral menu card (order of service card ... if there is a service).  W...

Especially for the person who asked when it was that I started blogging, it was back in 2008 with my shop blog 'Lavender's Blue ......

  I've been a blogger for so long that I'm used to having either my camera or phone to hand to snap various things that I suddenly h...

  Just recently the world feels as though it is ramping up to something urgent, as though there's something we need to do and somethin...

  I was on the Government website the other day, gritting my teeth and paying my half-yearly Self Assessment tax bill, while I was there I d...

  I cannot for the life of me find out the artist of this image but I think it is beautiful. Edited to add:- Thanks to you lovely lot I now ...

  Torn between two worlds!! I love this photo of my kitchen when it had almost been completed, the empty spaces, the clean lines, the promis...

  Sorry I've been AWOL for far too long 😦   There were lots of reasons but nothing for you to worry about.  The thing is I'm about ...

  Yesterday was the best birthday for a long time, and the best bits just kept on coming and coming.  Phone calls, texts, Facebook messages...

  It's my birthday, and I'm happy to say that I am 62 years old today.   Some don't have the good fortune of making it this far ...