Tracing Rainbows

Last Sunday, as we continued studying the life of Daniel, we reached the events of Belshazzar's Feast in chapter 5. Rembrandt's grea...

They have all been encouraging us to fight food waste, and quite rightly so - Hugh F-W with his mountain of parsnips, Jimmy and Jamie with t...

When I was younger, people frequently seemed to buy wool in hanks, which then needed to be wound into balls. Husbands and children were pres...

I lost count of how many people came to the pancake party on Tuesday evening - but I started out with a stack of 50 paper plates, and by the...

Today is Ash Wednesday - the start of Lent. If you want to join in the Lent Pauses, please comment on this [or subsequent] posts- and I s...

...and go TIng-a-ling-a-loo Stick yer finger in yer ear, and go  TIng-a-ling-a-loo Just like old Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo S...

People have different opinions about footwear inside the house. some go barefoot some wear socks some wear slippers some wear their ev...

I read an amazing story on the BBC Website this week. An American Tourist went to Iceland for a holiday, picked up his hire car, programmed...

Today is National Libraries Day - so get down to your local branch and bury yourself in a book!  If we don't use our libr...

The film is out today. It wasn't filmed in the forests round Thetford, and apart from Ian Lavender [the stupid boy is now playing an e...

As promised, a review of Hugh F-W's Chicken with Lentils and Rosemary. Liz made this for me two weeks ago, and I picked up my own copy o...

This time last year, we had a light dusting of snow. I posted about the crocuses in the garden, and the joys of having an open fire [ here ]...

I have been wrestling with trying to publish this for ages- and I am sure I am missing something obvious [Bob will tell me the instant he...

Our Coffee and Craft session yesterday ended with two ideas for recycling. Turning old Christmas Cards into little boxes, and using old maga...

I completely forgot I had't posted about this one! I don't really eat cheese, but we often serve a cheeseboard when we have guests ...

We are going through the book of Daniel on Sunday mornings at church. Last week we watched this video [Bob had to edit it, to make it shorte...

So, two years ago, I took on the 52 Projects Challenge The idea came from a couple of blogs I was following at the time - one now defunct...

Occasionally I get emails from people who invite me to promote their cause on my blog. I almost always politely decline. I prefer to speak...

Having a pack of baby wipes around is useful at times- my favourites are Mamia from Aldi [at first I misread it, and thought they said Nar...

Last weekend, I stopped at the Motorway Services, and looked briefly at the magazines in WHS [then picked up a free one in Waitrose] It bein...