As ever The Village Show is scheduled for the day before the start of the new academic year. My coping strategy for this is by insisting on taking Saturday afternoon off as Friday evening through to Saturday evening is filled with set up and signage and general preparation and Sunday, being show day is a 7AM to 7PM on site being useful ( Read more... )

Don't get me wrong, it's been a good week in many ways but I could have lived without

( Disaster! )

Lots to do today; none of it the stuff I was planning ( Read more... )

And it feels very holiday-ish. I'm here with all the windows and doors open because there's a pigeon stuck in the chimney and I'm hoping she'll see sense and get out of there under her own steam ( Read more... )

The Boy is out in the garden building me a splendid new herb growing box ( the existing one is suffering from entropy). It's way too hot out there for me so I've been up in the bedroom with my sewing kit catching up on some long overdue mending in between attending to the various phases of fettling up the newly acquired tatted lace tablecloth ( it' ( Read more... )

Why, you may ask, is this person posting a picture of a slightly grubby lace tablecloth ? Well the answer is that this is hand tatted lace and whitework on rather lovely fine linen. I think it's Edwardian and it cost me, (despite my protestations that the charity shop were wildly underpricing and they should ebay it or something) £2.00 because " ( Read more... )

Nearly 4PM! How did that happen? The bedlinen only just got into the washing machine so at this rate I'm going to run out of sunshine to line dry it ( Read more... )

Had a really nice day at Christy's, good food, good company, good weather ( Read more... )

Busy, busy week at work and I'm out tomorrow so some organising needed to be done in order to stop the house descending into entropy. I managed to get to Lidls before work this morning then nip to the pet shop for cat food in my lunchbreak so that was one thing done. Then when I got home I Launched straight into the housework... pausing would have ( Read more... )

Faced with some rather sad looking vegetables in the rack and celery and cucumber in the fridge and the last of last season's onions starting to sprout in the garage I decided to make a vat of soup. I felt that the addition of a large bunch of parsley and some chives would be toothsome so pottered into the garden only to discover that between ( Read more... )