Bath for the weekend

So this weekend we visited Wiltshire to see Jam’s Dad and stepmum, but as you can see from the above photo we didn’t stay in Wiltshire for long! We headed to beautiful bath to check out the Christmas market there. As you may be able to tell it was VERY BUSY but there were choirs Read more about Bath for the weekend[…]

Our new chickens & congratulations Kip and Beth

On Sunday we went along to Chiltern (home to also a very nice garden centre) to pick up our new (and as you can see not very feathered) rescue chickens. We decided to get two as we still have two ex battery hens in the coop and we wanted to the troops to be even. Below Read more about Our new chickens & congratulations Kip and Beth[…]

Experimenting with copper foil

You  may remember a couple of weeks ago I headed to Ardington School of arts and crafts to complete a stained glass panel. The actual panel as seen below used copper foil for the dragonflies and then set them into the leading/a traditional stained glass leaded frame to complete the piece. While I was really pleased with how Read more about Experimenting with copper foil[…]

Some things old some things new

Over the bank holiday we headed over to Newbury to help Jam’s mum tidy out a few things. She has bought a house in Malta and so quite a few of her lovely things were up for grabs. Having admired the chestnut roaster and toasting fork as well as the fireside tools for some time Read more about Some things old some things new[…]

A late entry on the birthday front

On arriving home from Nichi and Liam’s wedding this amazing cake was waiting for me, the Jam came up with the flavour (lemon) while Carol our neighbour and baker extraordinaire baked it using a lemon yogurt recipe with added poppy seeds, I think you’ll agree it is phenomenal so thank you both very much (if you Read more about A late entry on the birthday front[…]

Darcy, always Darcy

I could not name this post so without including a pic of the man himself, ladies reach for your smelling salts the danger of swooning is about to increase. (ding dong, Colin Firth will remain the ultimate Darcy for me, most dashing Austin male by a mile!). Now onto to some sewing. So about 4 Read more about Darcy, always Darcy[…]