Hello Friends, How are you all? The last few months have been a bustle of activity, of generous moments with family and friends and of heralding in some change; I feel I’m only just catching my breath. On the home front we (mainly I!) have harvested and preserved a respectable amount of fruit and veg.… Continue reading Issachar Eyes – October 2025
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Shifting seasons and my ‘girl years’ – June 2025
Hello Friends, How are you all? As I write our green and pleasant land is looking somewhat brown and dry, but the clear blue skies and sunshine are very welcome, reminding me of those long hot summers days of my childhood. We began the month with a girls’ trip to the New Forest with my… Continue reading Shifting seasons and my ‘girl years’ – June 2025
Tea time and travels – April and May 2025
A writer does need to have a tremendous curiosity about everything and everyone…but this must go along with an honest commitment to and involvement in human nature… Madeleine L’Engle, A Circle of Quiet Hello friends How are you? Life has been fairly full over in our little corner of rural England and I’m needing to… Continue reading Tea time and travels – April and May 2025
Lent lilies and seed sowing – March 2025
I’m everyone’s darling: the blackbird and the starling Are shouting about me from blossoming boughs; For I, the Lent Lily, the Daffy -down- dilly, Have heard through the country the call to arouse” Cicley Mary Barker, Flower Fairies of the Spring Hello Friends, Greetings from a warm and sunny south west of England! The weather… Continue reading Lent lilies and seed sowing – March 2025
Fresh resolves under grey skies – January 2025
We aren’t the first people to live through trying times, and we can learn from what St Benedict….along with several other historic figures…did to preserve culture and faith in the midst of a chaotic time….each became an island of virtue, a refuge for culture and hope. Habits of a Sacred Home, Jennifer Pepito Hello friends… Continue reading Fresh resolves under grey skies – January 2025
Anticipating Advent – November 2024
He came the first time in weakness, a tender infant born of a poor woman in the manger at Bethlehem, unnoticed, unhonoured and scarcely known. He shall come again the second time in royal dignity, with the armies of heaven around Him, to be known, recognised and feared by all the people ofthe earth. JCRyle,… Continue reading Anticipating Advent – November 2024
A colourful harvest and ancient manuscripts – September 2024
Miss Clare’s larder is one of the pleasantest places. I know….it has a red brick floor and whitewashed walls. The wooden shelves have been scrubbed so often and so well that the grain stands out in fine ribs. From the ceiling hang ropes of bronze onions, dried herbs in muslin bags, and a ham…Bottles of… Continue reading A colourful harvest and ancient manuscripts – September 2024
Rest and reflection – August 2024
His childhood had been happy; his mother was a real homemaker and his home was a jolly place, full of warmth and cosiness, lacking in fuss. Love in a Mist, Susan Scarlett Hello Friends, I trust this finds you well and that August has been kind to you; that you have been able to carve… Continue reading Rest and reflection – August 2024
Further adventures and beautiful places – July 2024
“Anne’s beauty-loving eyes lingered on it all, taking everything greedily in. She had looked on so many unlovely places in her life, poor child, but this was as lovely as anything she had ever dreamed” Anne of Green Gables, Lucy M Montgomery Hello Friends, How is life treating you? As I chat with friends and… Continue reading Further adventures and beautiful places – July 2024
Waterfalls of wisteria and wild, abundant gardens – May 2024
Inside…the curtains of wisteria were the same, and beyond them the garden, green and wild. The Scent of Water, Elizabeth Goudge Dear Friends, I hope this finds you well, and for those in the Northern hemisphere enjoying some warmer weather. May finally brought an increase in temperature here in the U.K. and with it a… Continue reading Waterfalls of wisteria and wild, abundant gardens – May 2024
Mothering through the seasons 