Cottage in the Lane

What a very wet and windy January we have had - and February looks like being the same. The side and end of the garden has been un...

It's been a while, I know, since I was last here but over Christmas life just go so busy and a bit complicated. I went to stay wit...

I am not now going to stay with my cousin following her hip replacement.  She had longer in hospital than anticipated, and is doing really w...

Is it really December - and the 11th already?  Where has this month gone? The soup maker that Brian bought and I wrote about last is a hug...

Last weekend Brian came home with a bag of ripe tomatoes, a large bag of ripe tomatoes.  Can you make soup with them? he asked.  Well, I tol...

Last Christmas our eldest son and his partner gave us a gift voucher for tickets to a play at our local Yvonne Arnaud Theatre - our choice o...

We have a lot of birthdays in the family this month. Three in Brian's brothers family and three in ours, plus my friend has a birthday t...