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Rhodes, 2021 - Sublime Stegna
Brace yourselves, here's part 3 of the travelogue!Our next destination was Stegna, a seaside village thirty kilometres from Rhodes Town. At the bus station, we discovered that the once-daily bus wasn't...
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Rhodes, 2021 - Lindos Revisited
Some twenty-five minutes after waving goodbye to George in Stegna, we caught sight of the dazzling white columns of the acropolis silhouetted against the azure skies and, moments later, behind the...
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Rhodes, 2021 - Back to the Old Town
Kalispera! Blogland can collectively breathe a huge sigh of relief, it's the final instalment of our Rhodes adventure. An hour after boarding the bus from Lindos we arrived back in Rhodes Town, where...
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Back To Life, Back To Reality
Where does the time go? I can't believe we've been home for a fortnight. Thank you so much for indulging me and allowing me to relive our trip to Rhodes over the last five blog posts.So what have I...
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Life Lately
I was astounded to wake up on Saturday morning and discover it was 8.50am! After tea in bed, courtesy of Lord Jon, I stripped and changed the bed and hurriedly got dressed as we were expecting...
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Pachyderms, Pompeii, Patchwork & Charity Shop Finds
After my Wii Fit session, a blog comment catch-up and a flurry of eBay parcel wrapping, I spent Tuesday morning ironing, photographing and listing stock on eBay, leaving Jon to do the accounts - pretty...
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In Loving Memory
 It's been a truly horrible week. On Monday night, after becoming seriously ill at the weekend, we had to say goodbye to our beautiful boy, Frank. He had a tough start in life and the five short years...
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Trust In Me - Revisiting Wightwick
On Friday we decided that a National Trust trip was long overdue so we grabbed our membership cards and fired up Patrice. Our destination was the magnificent shrine to the Arts and Crafts movement,...
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Time of the Season
Whilst it's not my favourite season, I do love the colours of Autumn. The cobalt blues of the tradescantia, late cornflowers and salvia and the vibrant oranges of the calendula, marigolds and dahlias....
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Out & About
How time flies! I can't believe it's been four days since I last posted, a hopeful sign that life may be slowly returning to something like normal. On Wednesday I caught the train into Birmingham....
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The Falling Leaves Drift by my Window
Sunday started, as it usually does, with the first of our twice-weekly lateral flow tests (to non-Brits, Covid self-test kits available for free from pharmacies and from the NHS website). The results...
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Getting the Jab Done
Tuesday morning's sunrise was so beautiful that I temporarily abandoned my Wii Fit workout to dash outside and capture it on camera. After breakfast, we walked down to the town centre vaccination...
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The Rake's Progress
What can I tell you about Saturday? Between us, we spent over 6 hours raking up leaves.And, as if tackling our garden wasn't enough for one day as there's been no sign of the council sweeping machine...
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"It Was a Cold November Day and She Had Dressed Herself Up in Layers of...
 On Tuesday morning I wrapped the eBay sales and Lord Jon dropped them off at the post office, doing a grocery top-up shop on the way back whilst I spent most of the morning listing party dresses on...
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Stormy Weather
With the rain lashing against the windows and the winds battering the trees, Storm Arwen had already arrived when I rolled out of bed at 6.30am on Friday morning, having had a wonderful night's sleep...
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The Unknown Soldier
 On Monday Lord Jon was up at the same time as me. He's participating in a clinical trial for the NHS over the next two years and had blood tests on the other side of town at 8am so he left me to my...
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Birthday Eve
 The ice was so thick on Thursday morning that I thought it had snowed overnight. Stephen wasn't keen on going outside but I'd soon warmed up after my 30-minute Wii Fit session. Supplies were low so we...
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Fifty-Five
Yesterday we drove over the border to Derbyshire, an hour up the road, to visit Kedleston Hall, gifted to The National Trust in 1951.Commissioned in 1765 by Nathaniel Curzon, Kedleston Hall was...
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Rock This Town - From Shakespeare to Sabbath
The birthday fun continues! Yesterday I met up with my friend Nikki in Birmingham for a day of culture, fabulous food and fun.I spent years in commuter hell passing the Hall of Memory in Centenary...
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Send Me A Postcard, Darling
It hasn't been all swanking around stately homes and hanging around city centres, we've done some work, too. It's been a busy few days for eBay sales, including a big order from a film company, so...
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