Hello 😉 and welcome to a new blog

I blogged (almost) continually from 2008 - 2021 but the time was right to give it all up at the end of last year.

However I never gave up my love of the blogging world: it is where I have met some wonderful people who are now real friends - I will never forget how many of those friends held me up in my darkest days, and it is where I have learned so much. I missed it. I missed being an active part of a lovely community.

But I had had enough of sharing the endless work renovating this house and creating a garden, it really was time to stop.


Since then my Blogger Profile said:

I'm still here, but I have lost any desire to blog. Shame really, because since 2008 sharing the house, the garden, the dogs, the fabric and goodness knows what else gave me such pleasure, created some wonderful connections.

But since Daisy's death, followed by Covid I just have not had the heart for it. I had thought I might start up again, until Putin decided to start a war with Europe. Best I just keep my head down for a while, and visit with - and comment on - everyone else's.


I need to rewrite it 🙂



I still miss my darling Daisy-dog more than is probably healthy (so do not be surprised if much loved pictures of her appear in seemingly random places without warning 💚 🤭 🐾), I still cannot believe that more has not been done to halt Putin's attack on all of us (not just Ukraine) and don't get me started on bloody politicians and their inability to fix anything closer to home either. The wonderfully articulate wordsmith Shanna Trenholm recently gifted me with the most perfect description for those upon whom I heap derision: megalomaniac narcissistic authoritarians.

But I digress and life has to move on. If I am not prepared to take the occasional risk, try new things, maybe change a little then I might as well just settle down in front of the fire with a good book, a rug over my knees and never move again.

Nothing is forever, even if at the time of making a commitment you think it might be. There are a few changes around here and I am ready to start blogging again to both create a record for myself and share some of my next adventure with those of you kind enough to stop by.

I honestly cannot say whether this will be a long-term project, or if it will fizzle out after a few months, but for now, here is a taster of what is to come (as if the blog title was not enough of a clue!)