This would be an unintentional project with an ever increasing appreciation for moody bloom photography (is this a thing? I am not sure...

May is my favourite month for wild flowers. I know July and August have some beauties (and I do love scabious), but for me, the...

In a time when we all need a little hope and colour in our lives, I have made my spring rainbow photograph free to download as both a...

It has obviously taken me a while to get round to writing this post, but I do want to keep a little of our grand European road trip last...

I have have been watching a small flock of blue tits use our garden as a dining room for months. I don't know if there are enough to call...

At the weekend I took myself to a wreath making workshop run by the wonderful Grace Alexander at my friends house in Somerset. I make at...

As I wrote in my latest newsletter, I am determined to find the available light in the darker months. Even when the weather is bad....

Great Dixter is (possibly) my favourite garden, anywhere. I mean to go more often, but it took until a very rainy October to make it...

I am a little behind on these posts, so we will skip past August (I am still planning that road trip blog post, maybe over winter if life...

June and July, cobbled together as it has been so hectic. When I decided to begin these monthly posts again, I hadn't factored in the...

Let me just put it out there that May is, in fact, my favourite month. Although I love most of the year, except perhaps January - March,...

Recently I have been uploading some of my old blog posts onto this new site. As there are so many, I have begun with the ones I want to...

I have long held a theory that the appreciation of small things is invaluable to my state of mind. A bold statement perhaps, but not at...

I have been shopping small for several years now whenever possible. So when invited to Weekend:IN's slow living retreat, with the...

Truth be told, right now I’m a little bored with my carefully curated Instagram gallery. January – a new year – usually brings with it an...

I have a theory – not a complicated one – that happiness is found in simple things. Now don’t get me wrong, those things can be grand or...

Motherhood is an adventure like no other. As ready as you think you are, nothing can actually prepare you for the reality of being...

another place One hundred cast iron figures stand facing out to sea watching the tide which submerges most of them twice daily

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite...