Tracing Rainbows

I need some advice please, from those of you who are proficient gardeners.  Back in the spring  🌱🌱🌱 planted lots of seeds - mostly tomato...

My Mum used to love it, when we visited my gran in Leigh on sea , if she could have a paper cup of cockles to enjoy as she looked out over t...

  This song has been around for 8 years now. It is ridiculously popular with small children. Bob came into the kitchen the other day, singin...

Kirsten warned me that the 'Flat Gift' for this month's embroidery was not that flat and would be arriving separately. Rosie was...

Another boat full of migrants sinks in the Channel. Hundreds in Hawaii, and in the Mediterranean lose their homes through wildfires, and tho...

Rosie has spent a whole week at Cornerstones.Mum, Dad and Jess are back in London. Every morning we have cycled to swimming lessons at the v...

The china we use everyday is my wedding present Hornsea Cornrose, and I love it. I've got a few other bits of Hornsea ware, like my thre...

It rained a lot on Saturday. The planned family walk was cancelled. The family asked if they could come over to Cornerstones instead. I deci...

Did you catch this joyous programme on Channel 4 last month? Possibly not, as all four episodes were shown late on a Monday evening and it w...

My dear friend Kezzie commented on last Thursday's post  "I love the word   lozenge.   I think you should do a post just about Lo...

We had a lovely day on Saturday - Jess and Rosie were with us all day, and as the rain poured down outside they played inside. Rosie wrote a...

The new calendar page was turned over this week. A couple of days late I am afraid. But as I was looking at it, and I took the picture for t...

Back in June, the weather was warm, and I was in my briefest summer pjs - a vest and shorts. It occured to me that if we were having a house...

Following Sue's post about sorting her freezer, I felt very challenged about tackling my frozen goods. I have let things get a little ou...

  At school we were taught people were Scottish and things were Scotch.   This gets confusing when you discover a schottische is a dance [a ...

  When you order anything 'Click and Collect' it is important to check that the boxes match what you have ordered. There were quite ...

I know that Virgil the poet warned about Greek Gifts but that was all about Trojans hauling the wooden horse into their city and being defe...

  Just some pictures from recent days on the theme of Eating Out A sculpture of a cheerful diner on the pavement just round the corner for J...