Very sad news from Kentwell today. Peony, the last of the Suffolks died today. Mayflower and Rosie both died over Christmas leaving only the Suffolk cross, Comfrey ( Read more... )

( Laptop woes )

( A moving saga )

Have just spent a week away in the midst of cat-sitting for Snowy the Slayer. Of course, I spent that week tudoring and dancing so there also had to be a cat-sitter for the cat-sitter at this point ( Read more... )

It having been a bit of a peculiar year in various ways, I have managed to put on a fairly substantial amount of weight to the point where fitting into clothes is starting to become a problem (Thank the gods for Festival type clothing with its one-size fits all approach and general elasticity of its trousers!) I am a skinflint and refuse to buy ( Read more... )

It's been a bit of a mixed summer. On one hand, I've been living in a house where the landlords kept going into my room to rearrange things and kept trying to make me one of the family (which was weirdly worse) and where everything was light coloured (the sitting room was white, both carpet and settees) and had to be kept pristine. On the other ( Read more... )

Yet again, playing catch up. I am blaming stress caused by sudden death of car in November (Yes, he apparently was planning something!) followed by sheer laziness.

( The Saga of the Car )

Had a very good birthday weekend.

Went along to the Isis Session on Friday and had a great time.

( Re-enactors' Markets )

Mean to do a lot of stuff this weekend being as it's that very rare thing after the start of May, a free weekend. Meant to tidy the room, meant to sew my new tattercoat, meant to join the gym, meant to go and visit Kentwell. What I actually did was chase a mouse and learn Idbury Hill.

( The Great Mouse Caper )

Didn’t pack last night: watched ‘The Three Musketeers’ instead (The good one with the screenplay by George MacDonald Fraser with Oliver Reed, Michael York and Christopher Lee) so that’s OK. It’s a brilliant film, mostly filmed in wideshot so you get the hilarious reactions and crowd/background business. Lots of lovely little historical details as ( Read more... )