Lime green and purple rays

Lime green and purple rays

Umbellifers are my favourite flowers. Budding, full flowering or gone to seed and withered after a long winter, I like all stages of these most fairy-tale of flowers. During a walk with my little girl, we saw many pretty things: rosehips, golden leaves and pink...
The reluctant gardener?

The reluctant gardener?

The amount of produce we had from our veg garden this year has been shocking really, and not in a good way. Every spring we are all excited about the garden, and that this year we will grow most of our veggies ourselves, the biggest range we ever grew, being...
Cheeky gulls and sandy toes

Cheeky gulls and sandy toes

Back from Greece with a tan, lovely colourful images in my mind and on our camera’s, and kilograms of tiny stones and pebbles, it’s a good thing we drove to our holiday 🙂 This trip included our very first official camping trip with our little girl…...

No seashells in Greece! but something better…

Well, not entirely true, I found about 4… I was really looking forward to hunting for some amazing shells, but they were almost absent where we were staying. But there was something way better than seashells; amazing multi-coloured pebbles and tiny stones in...
Treasury – Sea side fun

Treasury – Sea side fun

The summer is almost over here, but we’ll be going to the sea in a little while!! I love spending time near the sea in the late summer, the weather is not so blisteringly hot, and everything is so mellow and golden. To get me in the mood I collected some lovely...