Corners of my Mind

Still discussing the previous night’s performance of Richard III on Saturday we drove across country via Ipstones and Longnor to Buxton. We ...

So saith Lord Stanley to Richmond as he handed over the crown plucked from the brow of the dead King Richard on the Battlefield of Bosworth....

What a strange week. Well I was right about the rain, I really shouldn’t have taken the garden furniture out of its winter storage. No law...

Can’t believe it’s a week since I last wrote anything for here. The last few days have gone by in a daze of lawn cutting, gardening, cookin...

Yeh! Thank goodness, my vote did count. I was fully expecting to wake up this morning to the devastating news that the BNP had won another s...

We’ve been having a ‘clear out’ or ‘de-cluttering’ of junk accumulated over the years. I’ve been quite good at letting go of things* but I’...

The weekend started wonderfully as we made an escape for a couple of hours at lunch on Friday, a walk around the lake at Trentham then lunch...

I seem to be in ‘grumpy old woman’ mode today. Don’t know why because it is lovely outside. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the n...

We had an old friend to stay with us over the Easter weekend and yesterday we drove her back to Spalding. On the way we stopped off at the s...

I was interested to learn that there is a new book available whose plot revolves around one of my all time favourite paintings by my very fa...

We set out early today and drove across country through Ipstones, Longnor and Tideswell to Hope. The air was clear as we traveled through th...

I was searching through a box of old photographs and family papers when I found a very old card signed by my great-grandmother. Now this was...

Looks like spring has arrived at last. The daffodils are in flower, the collard doves are billing and cooing and we have frog spawn in the ...

Overheard earlier today as I walked to the local shop. Two small boys chatting on the pavement whilst playing football 1st Boy - she isn’t g...

Well, I started this Blog a year ago today and it seems I wrote about Dab Chicks at Cromford Canal. Perhaps we should go back and look at th...

I visited the Elan Valley twice last year. Once with friends on our annual ‘get-together’ and the second time with P on our way further into...

As it is World Book Day today I thought I would mention one of my all time favourite books J L Carr’s ‘ A Month in the Country’ . It is set...

I can’t be the only person that hasn’t read any Dan Brown novels and in particular 'The Da Vinci Code', in fact, I know I’m not bec...

Well, the ongoing saga with Homebase is still – well – ongoing. We have had two more attempts at getting two cream drawer covers with no su...

Up early, out of the house and on our way to Ikea by 8.30a.m. to buy handles for the kitchen doors and drawers. We have a choice of three ...