My Miscellany

Friday morning was bright and sunny - and busy. The forecast was for rain on Saturday, but when it too was bright and sunny, we got up and h...

Encouraged and inspired by Lorraine, I checked out her link to a photo challenge  - a month of prompts. The list is found HERE ; Clare is a ...

Christmas baking: both recipes have been posted before, but the photos are brand spanking new. Mincemeat Pears preserved with ginger ...

It's January already?!? How did that happen. The weather has been so bad that we have only been out to visit friends and family, and I h...

And from our snowy winter in 2010:  it's great that our squirrel-proof feeders really are squirrel-proof, but they don't lend th...

After all the rain, wind and what feels like grey skies forever, today was sunny and clear - and even offered a couple of photo opportunitie...

The weather here has been so grey and dull that photo-opportunities are few and far between. Instead, here are my favourite cards from Nove...

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...