J and I continued our tour of Scottish Castles today.  This was our longest trip so far; we went up to Braemar and Balmoral. Of course today was gorgeous weatherwise,…

I will not name the company which perpetrated this because their stuff is good value and I like their physical shops – but honestly.  I bought some very cheap crockery…

When we moved in the entire upstairs house was carpeted in a serviceable but rather dull (and in places rather threadbare) green carpet.  Bit by bit we have had some…

R describes my occasional outings with other like minded female friends as “The ladies who lunch”.  Today we had afternoon tea, so we must be “The ladies who take tea”…

We have two samplers which came from Norfolk.  I have always been very fond of these – imagining the little girls who made them. Victorian girls would have been incredibly…