Hello my tea cup friends. I've got a special little treat for you today. I found this lovely little Victorian tea cup in a tiny antique store in the bucolic Cotswold town of Burford. It's hand painted with very quirky little brush
A couple of days ago I was talking to my lovely friend Kathryn and I said to her that I don't even know anymore what's in my travelling paint box and that it would probably make an interesting post to
You know how people say that smells bring back memories more vividly that sights? I really think that's so true. One of the things which reminds me of my grandmother, of Prague, of my childhood at the summer cottage is
I don't think I told you. There is the most wonderful exhibit at Kew in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of botanical paintings by Rory McEwen. I didn't know very much about him prior to viewing the exhibition, (isn't that the way it
After all the sugary, flowery, girlyness of yesterday, Robert planned a day out at a car show
I was walking down to the village on this hot day and on the way down I passed our local herd of cows who were feeling the heat in their soft velvet coats. There is a very little stream which runs
Robert's working away form home today and I'm feeling a bit morose, a bit jet-lagged and a bit lonely. Went for a walk down to the village, to the church to visit with my Knight Templar and his Lady. It's such
Ugh, those X Atlantic flights are something, aren't they? Remind me to not fly thru the Canadian night again. But then, I did have an empty seat beside me and a lovely little old lady as a plane companion who
Who else is superstitious? Or maybe I should ask how superstitious are you, because I really believe everyone has some sort of superstition hang-up. Come on
The other night I watched a great BBC program called Regulation of the Wartime Kitchen. It was about how brave and resourceful people made themselves a happy Christmas celebration in the bunkers under London in the typical Dunkirk Spirit, while