Corners of my Mind

Yesterday I was able to cut some of the first rhubarb of the season. I must admit that it isn't one of my absolute favourite fruits; th...

At 5.40 a.m. on the morning of Tuesday 26 th March 1907 at Shirebrook Colliery in Derbyshire, fourteen day-shift men entered the cage of ...

A few weeks ago, whilst taking our usual walk along the Lakeside Walk at Trentham Gardens we came across a boot, just sitting at the side of...

Scene One I felt quite apprehensive as the youth crossed the road straight towards me. I’d seen him ambling along with that funny, slouchi...

Council and Tourism officials have decided to apply to UNESCO for Longton, the southern most of the six towns which make up the city of Stok...

I've had a photograph accepted for a wonderful blog called ' Doorways Around the World ' and it will be published on April 20th....

The day after letting Tom take his first venture outside for at least two weeks, we now have a problem with Chloe. Yesterday morning we set...

This afternoon Tom took his first turn around the garden since becoming ill 15 days ago. He spent 7 days at the vet's surgery and 8 ind...

Yesterday's Independent reported on the rather alarming news that after one of the mildest winters on record many of our familiar and f...

I must admit when Paul dashed out on to the patio late on Saturday night saying he was going to photograph the lunar eclipse, I said to myse...

Today was a stay at home and gardening type of day. With a still quite poorly Tom confined to barracks - well the back bedroom - after a qu...

Today is World Book Day and as one of my greatest passions is reading I thought I’d think about what books I have enjoyed over the years. ...

For those of you who have left comments or e-mailed me about Tom - thank you, you are all so kind. He has been very, very ill and last nig...

Poor tommy the tank is very sick. He's at the vet's surgery, attached to a drip to stop him getting dehydrated, and has been since ...

Last Friday we decided to make some marmalade. We'd bought 3lbs of Seville Oranges the day before from The Country Larder at Trentham G...

There is a saying, isn't there that Everything comes in Threes . Yesterday we found out that the ball valve in the header tank, which i...

On Wednesday we went over to Nottingham to visit our friends. We set out about 9.30a.m. and drove through Ashbourne to Belper and then towa...

On Sunday we decided to drive to Leek over the Roaches past the 'winking man' and on to Buxton. There was still a lot of snow aroun...

Well, after the spring like weather of Saturday and Sunday this is the state of the garden today. The cats are not liking it at all; for s...

Sunday was such a beautiful day. We had decided that we were going to walk a further stretch of of The High Peak Trail this time from Middl...