It's a long weekend here in the UK and a festival of speed at Blenheim, our palace next door. We thought it would be loads of fun to drive our his and her's TVRs to the festival. But we decided to make
Hello everybody, how's your week going? I've had a rare treat! Robert came with me into Oxford and we had a beautiful day. I must say that Robert rarely comes into Oxford with me, but he had an appointment in town and so
Hello everyone, I almost want to say, "welcome to my annual RBG Kew post!" But it's true. On my birthday it's traditional for us to visit Kew and, in all of England, there's no other place I'd rather be. I get absolutely giddy walking
I had one pill of my travel probiotics left and needed to make a trip into Oxford to the larger health food store to buy some more. I stopped in our market town at the small health food store earlier in
Oh my word the time just does fly, doesn't it? Every time I run out of time I wonder what happened to my on going New Year's resolution to stop running out of time and start running into it instead. Yesterday, Saturday
The rain came at night and I rented a car and headed out into the country. Just to have fun on the roads, I prearranged to hire a BMW series 3, little zippy thing, however, the car reserved was (apparently similar)
Hello everybody. What a weekend it's been and what a work up to the Art in the Garden show! It's been a fantastic few days, mixed with hard work and exhaustion, and a couple sushi suppers. Come, I'll show you how it
It's been a long standing tradition with me and my children to make gifts for friends' birthdays. I think it's a much lovelier thing than buying something mass market at some store, (unless of course the gift you buy is
Today was the Opus Art Supply outdoor painting challenge day and I must tell you that I've been painting up a storm lately for the Art in the Garden show May 27th weekend, and painting plein air all day was
Last night was the first of our Friday night market evenings at the Shipyards and I heard a rumour about a tall ship, so I decided to walk the 9 blocks to the docks and see for myself. Yes, there