Out of Season

We’ve been trying to find a weekend to visit our friend Ruth Guilding down in Cornwall for months. Regular blog readers will recall Ruth not only as author of the brilliant...

Harvest song

It’s been a village weekend. Autumn is settling over the valley. On Friday, Charlie was teaching a flower course at the Parsonage, with our friends Bridget and Henrietta, of the...

Antique Accessories. Our newest acquisitions.

One month

It’s been the craziest month. You might have been wondering where I’d gone. Was I ever going to blog again? The truth is we’ve had a wonderful but manic month,...

Oak leaf motif

My weekends have been spent collecting and drawing oak leaves. This weekend I took it a step further and started to cut them out, eventually coming up with my own...

You cannot get too much of a good thing

I’m on the train back up to London – a dark evening, pouring rain – never good on a Sunday night at the best of times – and the weekend...