My Miscellany

...and a recipe recap. A friend asked me if I would knit something for her to give her niece, expecting a first child. I gave her a book (...

This feels a little like making jams and jellies and storing up autumn harvest for the winter: I've spent this week working on a summer ...

Last Saturday wasn't a gloriously blue-sky sunny day, but it was nice enough for us to take a short trip to the Botanic Gardens - and we...

I am currently re-reading all my Margery Allingham books, and when I read the opening paragraph of The Tiger in The Smoke, I knew straight ...

The Thursday challenge on Splitcoaststampers this week was "Kids and Pets", and this sweet "We're Off To See The Wizard ...

I do love watching the gulls bathing, they always seem to enjoy themselves so much. I was working at odd times last week, and unsure of whic...

Some of my favourite cards from April...and I truly don't think the owls were influenced by our outing. ...

The owls were mostly in large cages - apart from the Little Owl (Gizmo, aged 7) who is in the reception area. I'm sure that in the previ...

We took a trip to the National Bird of Prey centre yesterday, as a birthday outing.  We went about three or four years ago, and I was glad ...