One of my favourite spots in the house so far is one that happened quite accidentally - the best bits often do dont they - and thats my reading pile. The book pile started forming after a particularl...
Aka what to give your parents when youre just back from holiday and have nothing in the house and have ten minutes to pick up supplies in a corner shop in Edinburgh. Any of these recipes are great on...
We have a front and back garden, for this year Im going to concentrate on the front garden as its got less to do to it and is easier done. Firstly it need some severe pruning to get things under cont...
Im just going to say to go read anything by this man. Youll probably know him best because hes the author of Salmon fishing in the Yemen. That book is soon to come out as a film - something Im e...
My mother in law brought these into the house while we were away, and just as we got back they started opening for us. Theyre an unusual colouring I bought last year of white petals and an amber colo...
For the last 9 days weve been here again, in our friends house in France. A thoroughly relaxing break of sleeping, scrabble, coffee, patisserie and sunshine. And lizard watching (yes, in march! It wa...
Ive done quite a bit of cooking trying out recipes Ive saved over the last few weeks. I go through phases of being stuck in a rut where all I can think of is pasta, to being really adventurous and tr...
lobster and swanIm intrigued. What do you do with your magazines when youve read them? I read mainly interiors ones, and textile/craft ones too, but I am a hoarder. I cant bear to throw them out. Or ...
image from amazonIm well aware Im behind the times by talking about this now, even though the films just out the book is a good few years old, and could be described as a modern classic already, but ...
image from re-nest via pinterest (I re-pinned it but the link wasnt direct to the blogpost - apologies)I saw this ages ago, but had to wait to do it until now.Its worked quite well, it would wor...
Remember my friend? (how could you not, the post is only about 4 back, such is my blogging prowess these days)She got married. It was beautiful. Herself and her husband run a group providing a f...
Personally, I could write a post on every one of these books, I own 6 of the 8 or 9 there are in the series so far. I love them. They are informative, modern, interesting and well written. The veg bo...
Pinspiration, see what I did there? I know. Im a comedy genius.Anywaaaaaay. I thought I should start using some of the images I spend my life pinning, rather than just.... Pinning them. And as is the...
One year ago right now, I married my best friend. Happy birthday grandpa, you would be 90 today. Well celebrate your birthday too. And happy first anniversary Ray, my anniversary buddy! Hope you both...
(Viki and I on the ullswater steamer this spring. )Ive had this post in draft for a week now, trying to work out how to introduce a friend of 20 years without sounding trite or sappy. But really, it ...
Yesterday evening I made this dress! Ive not yet learnt how to follow a pattern, (my mum is meant to be going to show me) but I found this fabric pretty cheaply in the Market, and thought f@&k it...
One of the first times I managed to get out into the garden properly after we moved wasnt until about February (what?! Its cold and wet up here!). My parents came across to help for the day, with a l...
So here it is.Our House, in the middle of our street. Im not mad keen on either photo, but the front garden isnt very big, so I dont have much space, and the trees, oh the trees! there are so ma...
The hardcore, long term readers out there may vaguely be able to dredge up from the recesses of your mind that I spent a long time making pompoms a year or so back, in the hope of one day making them...
(image from amazon)Ive got the reading bug badly at the moment. I was holding off reading this one until I had read his first offering (finally) on holiday. I liked this one even more than A Curious ...
So thats my wedding done, finally! Im glad to have it out of the way, it was a struggle to write the last post, as its so long since I was there I can only remember bits of it all now. Its just not w...
I wont say too much about the holiday, as its the same place we went to for the first half of our honeymoon (yup, we liked it that much). We spent two weeks out there, the first week was overcast and...
14 days, 7 books. Even I can do the maths there, although there was one very rainy day where I read the fellwalker in 5 hours.A year in the village of eternity.I think this was newly released, the on...
(flying across the White cliffs)Were back. Not that youll have noticed I was away, since my blog silences go on for longer than 2 weeks often, but we went to France. To the house we used on honeymoon...
When we made it off the train in to Paris I was far more relaxed. there were no more possible delays, our only remaining transport was in the hands of eurostar and dear old British rail. We found our...
We left for London, and the start of our honeymoon, on the Monday. We stayed overnight in London, right next to Kings Cross, as our eurostar left early the next morning. We had decided to do everythi...
This evening James and I went for a stroll along the river. I say stroll, it was more of a gentle scramble along the riverside playground of james youth.(thats James, in case you were wondering)You c...
The garden is really coming into bloom now, so I thought Id share one of my favourite views from the house with you. The ancient apple tree, shading debris from the shed saga (more on that to c...
In praise of friends.Little did I think when I started this blog 18 months ago, that I would make what i hope are lasting friendships from it. This little space was created after spending several wee...
venue - Crosby Lodgephotographer - Anna HardyBridal dress shop - Mia BridalDress designer - Suzanne NevilleStationery pieces - Daintree paper/Paperchase/Papermash/fis karsTransport - Silver lady weddi...
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