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 frothiness of the English hed...

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 desktop and mobile back...

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 summer here. I have ...

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 them a flock really...

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 least one wreath eve...

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. Inevitably this involves ...

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 there this year. I might...

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 ever slows down eno...

I have intentionally not written this post for a very long time. And then after I began to write it, I have been sitting on it for a while longer, not quite ...

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 ridiculously busy time ...

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, if I could only choo...

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 link to in some way, w...

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 all unfounded. By tea...

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

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 urge to shake thing...

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 small, but always at...

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

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 different, and if this ...

New Year always makes me pause. Theres a bit of ‘where did last year go’ and a bit of ‘what shall I do this year…?’ so much happens so quickly and so many pl...