Silvered Pebbles; a DIY Garden Game for Summer
We’re in the throes of an unexpectedly lovely May holiday weekend, and have been living outdoors, sorting out sheds and pottering in the garden. I uncovered a stash of old tiles, leftover from...
View ArticlePainted Pots!
Earlier in June the sun broke through the grey British skies and we had three magnificent weeks of an early taste of summer. We spent most of our free hours outside; building dens, bringing the garden...
View ArticleHow To Look Manly In An Apron (or: Impress Your Friends With a Tea Towel DIY)
Successful marriage requires compromise, as we all know. The hurly-burly of give and take is what bonds you as a couple and cements your union. Sometimes it means making sacrifices for the other,...
View ArticleDream house Renovation: The Dressing Room
It seems inconceivable that just five years after moving into our rambling, creaking old house we could be decorating a room for the second time. Harry’s then-nursery was the first room we did anything...
View ArticleMoody blues
Recently I’ve become obsessed with deep, inky blues and charcoals, and decided to give our bedroom a bit of a makeover. Regular readers will remember it’s a big, high-ceilinged room, connected to a...
View ArticleDIY World of Harry Potter – in cardboard!
Regular readers will know of our household obsession with Harry Potter, and also with cardboard. Recently, Harry and I combined these two great passions by beginning to build the wizarding shopping...
View ArticleJust for fun… how to win at festive Zooming
Well, no-one can say that this year hasn’t tested our resolve and adaptability, with its constant peaks and troughs and changing guidelines in the face of the ever-evolving COVID-19. This weekend we...
View ArticleUpcycled sewing basket
I have a passion for old baskets and trunks, and an equal obsession with reuse and upcycling, so when my husband bought me this second-hand wicker hamper from eBay for Christmas I was thrilled… (so...
View ArticleDream House Renovation: The Cellar Studio
Regular readers will know we live in a vast and rambling house that is quietly falling apart but has the beautiful bones of a society grand dame. Restoring it is a life’s work, and even after nearly...
View ArticleBeachcomber Sculpture
We’re just back from a wonderful week away in Tenerife, one of the Spanish Canary Islands. It was the first trip abroad we’ve managed for two years, and our first sunshine holiday since Covid began....
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