Is There Any More Tea In That Pot?

At the moment, I have been fascinated each day by two magpies in a neighbouring tree, as they have begun to reconstruct their old nest. (Thi...

Sunrise early December I woke this morning snug and warm under the duvet. It was still dark at 6.30a.m.  I listened to the song of a r...

Well, November is here!  Everyone is talking about the approach of Christmas.  It does not seem that long ago that we were watching the...

Long ago in the mists of time, a young man of 18 was heading up to Cambridge University in the October of 1970. He had not long been going...

"Birthday Boy" rose. Bought for my dad on his 90th birthday. Now in our border.  Dahlia border Baddesley Clin...

The house is quiet  and Tiger has come in from his nocturnal wanderings, wherever he happens to go, and has gone into the loft to curl up...

Mulllion Cove. Cornwall. June 2013   The most Southerly thatched cottage in the UK Our family on Mullion cliffs Cream tea in...