Earlier in February we visited The John Rylands Library in Manchester to see The Tregaskis Collection- a unique collection of bea...

Illustration taken from "White is the Moon" “My heart is like a singing bird” from the poem “A Birthday” by Christina Rossetti bes...

This year I am trying very hard to be positive and to focus on my many blessings but this Christmas will be a challenging time for us as we ...

This post is very late, we returned from a very wonderful trip to Venice last week but I have been hobbling about on a very sore foot since ...

Over the last few months our lives have been dominated by boxes, all around us people are on the move. One son moved house, the other moved ...

We went in search of sunshine and blue skies and found them here in St Ives which really does have the bluest of blue skies and sea. I met m...

Working on this children’s book project ( The Bird with the Rainbow Tail ) has been a little bit like climbing a steep hill, I started off n...

click for a close up. I would very much like to pretend that the beautiful, well kept garden above belongs to me but I am sure you know bett...

It has been a busy time here, family visits from afar being the main focus of our bank holiday weekend, so not much time for work or updates...

This weekend brought sunshine, family and great joy into my life. The sun shone, the skies were blue, the birdies sang and flowers opened. W...

As you might have gathered by now, I have a bit of an obsession with the moon. I think that there is no more magical a sight than a full moo...

The half term holiday is now over and I am now catching up on all those domestic chores that inevitably follow. Our children left school man...

Christmas Decorations at The Ritz. Patrick at "The Art of Christmas exhibition" Yesterday I exchanged my dog walking trousers and ...