Tracing Rainbows

Watching Bargain Hunt this week, I nearly choked on my lunchtime sandwich. The teams had been challenged to find something "with an ani...

  ... Two By Two Below are my first two squares for our latest collaboration.  In my stash I found a cushion panel for a Noah’s Ark, about 1...

In the past two weeks, I've have met up in person with three people who read this blog. One was an old friend who I knew before blogging...

The weather was lovely yesterday. I moved my broad beans [which had been hardening off in the mini-greenhouse into the raised bed. And the f...

 I love London. There is always something new to discover, somewhere fresh to visit - alongside the comforting familiarity of well loved fav...

The Christmas Cake was all eaten up - and the manger, the angel, the candle and the greeting were left forlornly on the glass cake stand wit...

There were so many kind words on the 4,000,000 post, and even after removing the friends who sent comments, but put 'don't include m...

In 2020 I chose inspire, in 2021 it was adventure, and in 2022 it was l ook again. So I thought long and hard about my Word of The Year fo...

On Saturday, I dismantled the tableau in the Cornerstones Carriage House. The costumes all need to be washed, the polystyrene heads and the ...

I am struggling to get my head around this huge number.  My blog has had over 4,000,000 hits since it began in March 2008. Thank you so much...

Bob and I greatly enjoy strolling round the local Villages when they hold Yard Sales. Foulsham, where we are now members of the little chape...

  As we unpacked the books, we came across four duplicates. Three in very good condition- one with some notes in it [many notes, actually, i...

 ...Crazy Woman TO The East Last week I did a round trip to Cornerstones - leaving Thursday, returning Friday. As we will probably arrive la...

In 1972, Bob's parents bought a 3 piece suite, covered in an oatmeal tweed. His Mum subsequently made covers in an attractive Sanderson ...

I grabbed a couple of old cookbooks to read on holiday. I have had these for years. I'd watched Shirley cooking on the BBC when the girl...

  On Sunday 15th March, we launched a special programme at church. It is called "Try Praying" - it is all about "prayer fo...

We had a wonderful time. Bob and Geoff cooked over 120 pancakes.  It was good to have so many friends dropping in. I went to bed for an ...

I bought a jigsaw to do over  Christmas . Only I forgot to bring it up to Cornerstones. So it came up last month instead, and I completed th...

Last week I mentioned JMBarrie and Peter Pan. I hadn't realised till yesterday that PP first appeared in 1902 in a book called "The...