" It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. " Laura Ingalls Wilder Since I last wrote in October the...

The nights are closing in. The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is upon us. The swallows departed for Africa a few weeks ago....

" Burnt out ends of smoky days " T S Eliot One more week to go and we will have lived through the second lockdown in England. This time...

' Lord, I had such a good time & I don't regret anything.' Franz Wright This last Saturday I should have been out enjoying the display of...

“ We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. ” ~ Eduardo Galeano The grapes are coming in. It is harvest time....

(Photo Credit - Davids Tent) Back in July I wrote a blog post titled 'July Storytelling.' I stated that I felt encouraged to tell the...

Another wet day. More time indoors reading books and old magazines. Dreaming of making cakes with lashings of cream but too lazy to...

' burnt - out ends of smoky days ... ' T. S. Eliot - Preludes I sit at my desk writing this as the rain hammers down outside. Behind the...

“The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above all else...

Photo Credit: AnnStreetStudio - Chateau de Gudanes Life can get pretty mundane if you let it. You go through the same routine every day....

"For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle upon a thousand hills ..." Psalm 50:10 ESV I can't help myself, I know I live in...

"They are not long, these days of wine and roses" Ernest Dowson - Vitae Summa Brevis There is a nip in the air and Autumn is at the...

There was a raging wind outside last night and I woke up angry because so many of the leaves have now been ripped off the trees and the...

I was reading Nigel Slater's 'The Christmas Chronicles' and it put me in the mood for bonfires and winter soups. Up until that point I...

' Burnt out ends of smokey days ...' TS Eliot - Preludes It is Autumn and there is the smell of woodsmoke in the air. It is also grape...

'Season of mists & mellow fruitfulness' John Keats Next weekend Loseley will be hosting the Surrey Game & Country Fair. If the weather is...