We’ve all been there: you have five minutes to leave the house and you’re frantically scrabbling around for a knitting project you can wo...

What better time of the year to start a new hobby than right at the beginning of Autumn. We have darker evenings and I don't know about y...

My great first staycation in 8 months! It was exciting to take a journey of a couple of hours over the Pennines to one of my favourite pl...

If you visited this field in 1998, you would have seen a bleak area of potatoes and barley fields that stretched for miles across the hor...

10 Things that have made me happy recently I just realized that I haven’t written one of these posts in over a year. I think it’s because...

Where the Rainbow Hit Earth - A most beautiful, colourful Norwegian garden, on an island with a white sandy beach and my ultimate garden ...

Summer has arrived The anticipation in the lead up to summer has been building up for many months. And this year June has been so differe...

Midsommar 2020

And why, because its World Heart Rhythm Week 2020, an annual awareness week that focuses on detecting arrhythmias (irregular heart rhythm...

I do apologise for this rather late May update. I’m sorry that I don’t have an excuse, it’s just that I’ve been busy retreating to my gar...