This week I have embarked on decorating our drawing room.  I was determined to call it that (rather than lounge or sitting room) because it sounds grand and is grand. …

When I was a child my father’s mother lived in Blackpool.  There was a desk with a bookcase on it – and it was full of old fashioned books of…

I’m off to my craft class tonight.  This is the one where last year we made the Christmas bauble. For the first class I am taking Larry the Lion along. …

I went out the back door to empty the bin this morning, and on the door lintel was a lovely moth which had obviously just emerged from its winter cocoon. …

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…