Tracing Rainbows

What a fun week - some time ago, Liz sent me a link to the Kaffe Fassett exhibition at the Fashion & Textile Museum in Bermondsey. Then ...

 ... Make Marmalade While The Sun Shines* Following yesterday's post, this is my Malaphor for the Day. I had a lemon in the fruit bowl, ...

Last weekend, my friend Chris Duffett taught me a new word  Malaphor A malaphor  is an informal term for a mixture of two aphorisms, idioms ...

Not a post about tea , but a post about The Tea Post Last week Bob had a very early  appointment at the surgery for an eye test. The instr...

Did you pick up this piece of news last week? S C Johnson ['a family company'] is no longer producing Kiwi Shoe Polish to be sold by...

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...

I blogged about Charlie Mackesy - the artist who produced the book [and film] “The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse". Someone has s...

  ...It's Not A Dinosaur! What??!!  THe ominous dark crack in the egg widened on Thursday [Day 4] and all was revelaed on Friday. It is ...

... I t I s Now! Today is the Feast of The Epiphany, although some people will mark Sunday [January 8th] as Epiphany Sunday.  As we walked b...

Grandson George is busy learning new words, discovering all sorts of exciting things and generally being a delight.It was December 30th befo...

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 ...

One carol which seems to have been ubiquitous this Christmas is "The Carol Of The Bells" - but Liz had sent me a link showing it w...

If you didn't watch "The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse" and the accompanying documentary about the artist Charlie Macke...

There I was, reading an article online about Christmas leftovers, and it mentioned keeping your cooked meat in a hambag . "Sweetheart,...

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...

I popped briefly into The Range to get a couple of washing up bowls - we have had a double sink in the kitchen for a year, and I really want...

  Liz suggested a pull along wagon would be useful for Jess to store books and toys. Bob looked at a number online, and decided to construct...

I decided against crackers - bought ones were either cheap, tacky and full of plastic, or they were eco friendly, stylish and pricey. Then a...