Corners of my Mind

I'm going to take you on a walk around one of my favourite Derbyshire towns, Ashbourne. If I could chose where I want to live then this...

We nearly missed these lovely little snowdrops as we passed them by on our walk this morning. They were well back from the path, under the ...

In my post 'Tommy and the Tulips' I mentioned a project that I had done for the Museum Association's Diploma and that I would po...

Since last summer I'd been thinking that I ought to try and make little things like lavender bags and pin cushions. I'd kept puttin...

We decided that today we would visit Shrewsbury. It is one of my favourite towns and only 40 minutes away from where we live. We always dr...

I've been given this award by Lois at Matsqui Musings and Rosie at Wuddled Murds - thanks both. I have to name others to pass this on ...

I bought myself a bunch of yellow tulips to try to bring a bit of colour into my life, which, at the moment, seems very grey. The weather o...

I've found great inspiration this morning from a post I read over on Rowan's blog - Circle of the Year. She has a wonderful collec...

Sometimes life is just full of little surprises - Happy New Year! Today I began to feel a little better. We had a long walk in a very misty...

We decided to celebrate feeling slightly better by venturing out for the first time in a week. Paul had been as far as the local shop a cou...

I would say that it hit me, like a bolt out of the blue, on Saturday afternoon, after an early shopping trip to the dreaded Tesco and follow...

Wishing you all a joyful, peaceful Christmas.

For the last four weeks I've been roaming all over the world with the locations on people's mail. I won't go into the technical...

One of the joys of Christmas Day is to curl up with a good book. After lunch is over and all the debris cleared away I like to settle down ...

By the time we'd finished work at 2pm. I was ready just to crawl into that bed and draw the curtains snugly around and go to sleep. This...

I really wasn't going to make a Christmas cake this year but I had enough dried fruit left from the plum pudding to make one, all I had ...

Well, it's the first of December and although Christmassy things seem to have been around since the end of September, I've been tryi...