Featured Posts in'Day' Category

Blue skies and Yellow happiness…

It was the last official day of the summer hols today. Oh I know we've still got the weekend, but that doesn't really Read more..

When is a courgette not a courgette…

When its a stuffed marrow of course! Tonight was round 2 in our 7 days of courgette cuisine and after a day back at Read more..

Show Off Your Cottage Monday

Welcome to "SHOW OFF YOUR COTTAGE MONDAY", a blog party I host at the beginning of each week to celebrate the things we Read more..

Excerpts of my life…

Enchanted creatures? I am the Tinkerbell of my little world. I fly around this flower-laden land deadheading here, Read more..

Good Foundations…

The day of concretion has come at last! The concrete mixer arrived very early (much earlier than we expected!) and we Read more..

Ancestor Worship starts with Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

We’d made a plan to go and look at some graves.  A little  eccentric perhaps.  But in the spirit of humoring the Read more..

Back To Days

I have just finished my four night shifts. The sun seems to have been shining on the days when I have been asleep Read more..

Stormy days

We are having a blissfully gloomy day around here... high temperatures have been replaced with cool, rainy clouds and Read more..

Rain Freshens up the Garden

It’s been a relative dry summer down here in Oxford. The recent rain has brought out the best in our flowers and Read more..

Top Ten Tips for drought in the garden

August is a time for frazzled lawns, thistledown parachutes and gaps in the flower-beds.  In the East of England, Read more..