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...

I have spent the morning walking my dog and taking lots of photographs of buttercups in the meadow so I will have lots of reference material...

Work has started on my new book project I spoke about earlier, or perhaps I should say our new book project. It is in fact going to be a fam...

It is so hard to stay indoors when the bluebells are in bloom. For a brief spell, before the leaf canopy gets too dense, sunlight dances on ...

I have been reading an old gardening book which refers to daffodils as daffydowndillies, isn't that a lovely name? Our daffodils have m...

"This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England". William Shakespeare. Although the tradition of wearing a red rose on St...

Following on from my last post I promised to tell you about Oxford. We stayed overnight in St Stephen’s Hall, one of the many student halls ...