Very close to us at West Cottage is a forest called Wychwood. It used to stretch over 180 square miles and was counted as a Royal Forest of William the Conqueror in the 1086 Doomsday book. It's a mixed forest of
Finally! It's time for the drawing challenge. Nadine took the lead for the first one after the August break and her inspiration is "Japan". Last month I bought a sort of "grab bag" of goodies from the London Embroiderer's Guild. I wasn't sure
I have a Land Rover story to tell you, but rather than show you the gruesome happenings, I'm going to show you the lovely vintage things I bought the other day. So, I had to run into Oxford today and Robbie
The building is in the middle of Oxford, in the centre of the tourist trade. It hosts a trendy coffee shop named Pret a Manger It's always crammed full of students, shoppers, tourists, children
Around us in OXON, there are weekly antique markets. I always think that they are too expensive and professional and so rarely visit one, but this one in Newbury, at the racecourse, coincided with a drop off R needed to
"There is stillness, the stones hold us. Still." (Druid saying recorded by Romans) In the next door village of Stanton Harcourt is a stone henge. The village is named for it: from Stan (farm) + tun (beside the rocks). It's a little
I was just thinking of another meaning. Of how deer fray the velvet off their antlers to mark territory. And I was thinking of how I sat in the grass at Charlecote Park and watched the male roe deer grazing.
Oh boy oh boy oh boy! We've been major energizer bunnies round here. We've been building the carport, and removing stuff to the tip, and collecting plums, and chopping wood, and burning branches, and digging out a huge and ugly
This always happens, and, we really should know better. Towards the end of the summer, Robert and I go a bit mental and take on a huge home project. This weekend we decided to build a carport against the end of
You got to love the Victorians, don't you. They had such a quirky sense of style, or keen sense of humour