"And tree & house and hill & lake, are frosted like a wedding cake." Robert Louis Stevenson. If I could take you with me on a walk today...

It has become my tradition for the past couple of years to leave Loseley behind and move up to my Dad's house in the Surrey hills for...

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...

' Sir, More than kisses, letters mingle souls.' John Donne When was the last time you wrote or received a handwritten letter ? A...

Photo Credit: AnnStreetStudio - Chateau de Gudanes " Can you recall a time when a significant someone in your life sat you down with the...

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

The hay bales at Loseley Let me paint the picture. It is a bright sunny Autumn day. I am out enjoying the blue skies and changing colours...

"But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will...

( Rosie & Finnegan) " Oh, visit the earth, ask her to join the dance! Deck her out in Spring showers, fill the God river with living...

So I put in a request for snow in my birthday month, February. I forgot to ask for it to be local! It seems that it takes a huge effort...

"No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into...

We had a flurry of snow in the Surrey Hills just after Christmas. With the higher altitude snow falls and remains on the ground slightly...

Here are my top 10 photo memories from this year in no particular order. * Lavender fields in Sussex. The buzz of bees and smell of...

* Cutting the Christmas tree - this would be my favourite thing to do if I hadn't buckled in to the convenience of a fake tree covered in...

Next weekend is the utterly amazing and wonderful Goodwood Revival. ( https://www.goodwood.com/flagship-events/goodwood-revival/ ) My...

Here are a few of my favourites from Goodwood race course. Next weekend is the end of season August Bank holiday event which is a throw...

"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." ...

"We ate well & cheaply and drank well & cheaply and slept well & warm together and loved each other." A moveable feast - Ernest...