Last Wednesday I got to play with Ros Atkinson (@her_dark_materials) at Osterley Park, where she hosted a fun workshop for about a doze...

Last week I shimmied over to the London Institute of Photography on Brick Lane to do their beginners' course. I've been taking phot...

On Tuesday I spent a fun day at Hampton Court Palace. Now I have to confess that it takes very little enticement to get me to spend a day in...

I've been really busy with work recently, which has buried me under a blizzard of paperwork and left me at the mercy of a series of unfo...

For all of us in the stitching community there's nothing quite like the big Ally Pally Autumn Fair. There are lots of other craft fairs,...

Sometimes in the middle of London on a balmy summer evening it's hard to believe that you're in the metropolis. Those precious po...

Right now I am in thrall to the horse chestnut trees. All across West London they are in bloom, and the air is heavy with their scent. ...

I had to go into town for a meeting on Friday, and it was soooo cold and grey and miserable that I almost couldn't get excited about the...

The other day I toddled along to Kew Gardens with Jenny, one of my besties, to see the Kew Gardens Thai Orchid Festival . It was all her ide...

Friday was Candlemas Day, the day on which the faithful traditionally celebrated the churching of the Virgin after the Holy Birth. It seem...

Happy Friday! I'd like to share a fun shot that Mr B sent me yesterday. This was the scene outside his window whilst he was eating lun...

I'd like to say a big thank you  to all my lovely customers from Sunday past, who came along to the pop-up wool fair that popped up for ...

Last night I took a short-cut through Walpole Park on the way home. As I was steaming along I came across the most beautiful sight: a mid...

Now I have to 'fess up to feeling a tad proprietary about the bluebell. You see I was born at the end of April, when, as my mother stil...

Once upon a very long time ago  snuff was all the rage. It started with the indigenous tribes of Brazil, and was carried back to the Old Wo...

I'm not sure what's going on down at Selfridges on London's Oxford Street, but it looks like they're doing a homage to the G...

I've been known to bleat on about how much I hate January. But you know it hasn't been so bad this year. I've been embracing Jan...

It's turned really chilly here in London. The days are bright and clear, with blue skies and sunshine, but once the sun goes down it get...

Today I'm loving a swamp Cypress - native of a mangrove swamp in the Florida Everglades, - that's made its home in Walpole Park. Who...

And TGI the holidays! Finally school's out for summer ... and we're already on the road! We're bombing up the motorway to Holy...