2020 left us reeling from a pandemic none of us could have seen coming. Covid- 19 has tested our resolve to the limit. Like you all I had plans for holidays, parties, celebrations, christenings, and all the normal activities we take for granted. Oh, how I miss my friends, their company, be it happy or […]
My love for colour was heightened when I enrolled for a floristry course about 12 years ago. I bet you’re wondering why I mention this, but to understand that I had not really embraced a lot of colour in my life, I had for 9 years worn a black tunic and trousers in another of […]
When I was a child the fields surrounding my home were my playground. It was there that my love for wild flowers grew. We had a garden, but neither of my parents were keen gardeners so a lot of weeds and the occasional rhubarb patch was all I remember. However we lived in the countryside, […]
It’s not a secret to my followers on my Facebook page that I adore red poppies. I have done so since I was a child. In every one of my 33 years of married life we go in search for poppy fields in and around Northumberland. They are not always apparent and take some seeking […]
Hello everyone, welcome to my very first blog. Anyone who knows me well will be aware that I have no problem in the art of conversation. Or as my lovely father used to say the women in his life could ‘talk underwater’. But writing it down is another skill I need to learn. So you […]