This year for Christmas we were lucky enough to go and visit James dad, step mum and their two little dogs who live near a town called Fougere in France. We took the car across by Ferry a couple of days before Christmas so when we arrived everyone was really getting into the Christmas spirit. Read more about En Francais[…]
On Sat we set our alarms for early o’clock (that was very very early o’clock for those of us who had moth traps to empty first…), packed our bags and headed for the city of London. We had been given tickets to the aquarium, London eye, London Dungeon & Madame Tussauds & a night in Read more about Our trip to London town[…]
The not very nice looking building in the above picture was our old shed. It was breeze block built and had the dreaded asbestos on its roof. Originally it was linked to the kitchen by a lean to but unfortunately for us the roof on the lean to had been put on back to front Read more about Destruction![…]
After what seems like months of build up this weekend signaled the end of the wait and the beginning of my first time exhibiting as part of Oxfordshire Artweeks. I joined 17 other artists in exhibiting over the weekend at Appleton Village Hall. Should we have a look around? My friend & the finest sculptural Read more about And here we are at artweeks[…]
This Sat was a bit of a packed one, we had to be in Appleton for half past ten to meet my fellow artweeks artists & see the spaces we’d been allocated. Meeting all the other artists was great, they are a really talented lot & I’m now even more excited to be showing some Read more about Super Saturday[…]
We are enjoying the final days of the Christmas holidays here at Castle HQ. Jam and I have been enjoying lots of relaxing as well as getting a few important house jobs done. Earlier today we stripped the first wall in the kitchen (the walls are being painted the 2nd sample – the greenish colour Read more about So that was Christmas[…]
We headed up to see my brothers this weekend, the meal above was on Sat lunchtime which still left us a lot of time for all the following: Building profiterole towers Dressing up with props on sticks Rudolf gets a make over curtsey of our kid… Puppy snuggles “Now den which chocolate would I like?” thinks Read more about Weekend of family and fun[…]
This weekend we finally made it on our very delayed trip to Glastonbury for my birthday. We drove down on Friday night after work & stayed in really lovely B&B The Pilgrims. The room was really good value & also included a fab breakfast the next morning, not to mention the most excellent Halloween attire, Witch in the flowerbeds anyone? Read more about Glorious Glastonbury![…]
Today was the nicest day we have had for ages, which made our trip to the Wychwood forest fair even better! There were a myriad of delights but the main thing that lured us there was our favourite puppetry company Hand to Mouth theatre were performing the most excellent Piggery Jokery, so clearly we had Read more about Wychwood forest fair[…]
Last Sunday I shut the hens away a little later than usual and became aware of a rustling in the undergrowth by the run. On closer inspection we found this little fellow trying to get into the run to eat the girls meallyworms. The next day I went into our local pet shop for some Read more about A hoggie invasion[…]