My Miscellany

We were dog-sitting this weekend. On our way home from shopping on Saturday morning (during a gap in the rain) we both spotted this unusual ...

On our first blackberry-picking outing, I found a blackthorn bush tucked away in between all the brambles - and with the most enormous sloes...

Two lovely days in a row! We're having better weather just now than we had most of the summer. Sunday morning was bright and sunny, so w...

It's felt like rather a blah sort of month, so I'm surprised that I could actually find several cards I liked enough to post here! ...

It was a mild day today, dull when I went shopping early in the morning but getting sunny and bright as the day wore on. In fact, we went ou...

It's taken a while, because I didn't do much over the summer. But the leftovers from Lorraine's lighthouse afghan  have now bec...

I was coming home from work yesterday, and stopped to watch a large flock of starlings. I'm not sure what was attracting them to land, b...

There were several of these vivid red lily pads floating at one end of the lily ponds, each with its little nymph. Also floating on t...

I'm so glad we went to the Botanic Gardens last week and didn't leave it till this weekend. After a week of beautiful sunshine we wo...

Favourite cards from September. A couple might look rather Christmassy but they're not particularly intended as Christmas cards - in fa...