Corners of my Mind

It's really too hot to be writing this. We have just spent the day picking black-currants and gooseberries from the garden. If we leave ...

There are three things puzzling me. You can no doubt tell I haven’t got anything of great importance to distract me at the moment and in the...

The orange walls and bright blue pillars of the coffee bar seemed cool and inviting as we entered. Sipping our coffee and admiring the pictu...

I can’t believe it is 10 days since my last entry. Time passes by very swiftly and to quote John Simpson in ‘The 5-minute Interview’ in toda...

I'm used to getting lots of letters in the post containing pens; there is a huge collection of them by the telephone. I even used to ge...

We went up to Ainsdale Sands on Saturday. Every year P takes a couple of coach loads of students up to the sand dunes for field work and he...

Just some of today’s highlights:- Field after field of golden buttercups as we travelled up towards Hope and Castleton. Breakfast at the Nag...

As I walked into town this morning via the old St John’s churchyard my senses became aware of the heady pungent smell of elderflowers. They ...

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...