Tracing Rainbows

My Dad used to have a poster  like this. A reminder that we cannot pick and choose our neighbours- but we are still called to care for them....

  Six years old today- we are so proud of you. You are a thoughtful, friendly boy, with a great sense of humour, and such fun to be with. We...

I love giving, and receiving, slightly quirky gifts. Nothing expensive, but things which are just a little out of the ordinary, somewhat une...

  Thank you to Dave Walker for his brilliant cartoon. If there is an election in your area today.  Please Vote.  I'd quite forgotten the...

I think the first time I came across the word forage  was as a child, when my Dad put on his Boys' Brigade Officer's Uniform  - he a...

Sometime I must ask Ann just why they call the Toddler Group "Little Acorns" I mentioned yesterday that the lady at the Fete from...

The EWOKs [Egyptian Walking Onions from Kirsten] have gone crazy in some corners of the garden this summer. Bobs ShedMen have had a few of t...

  This is the Costessey Fete in 2018 , Rosie was two and we were looking after her for 24 hours. Now she has grown up so much, and, like her...

The picture on my calendar for May. I am reminded of two quotes from the late great Dr Martin Luther King  You don't get to the Promised...

I have been much involved with sleeves recently. I've taken the 'cuffs' off my blue summer dress , it's much more comfortabl...

 These were the mice I made two years ago for our local Museum This year the theme is Sport In  Dereham, so the mice are all wearing hats an...

Shakespeare coined the term, in 'Antony and Cleopatra' when the Queen uses it to describe her time of carefree youthful pleasure. No...

Back in the 80s my friend invited me to go with her on a shopping trip to Bromley. Having dropped our daughters off at Primary School, we we...

We used to sing "Molly Malone" at school in music lessons. Did you? When I was a child, we would visit the family in Leigh On Sea,...

As far as we can tell, Cornerstones [built 1972] started with a basic kitchen. In the 80's the owners replaced the units with better one...

 Norfolk is the driest county in England- but still has a lot of water - with seven main rivers[ Ant, Bure, Chet, Thurne, Waveney and Wensum...