***WARNING** food and photo heavy post Not sure if it is this rather dank and dreary and decidedly damp weather (ooh I love alliteration) ...

Since leaving full time work it has taken me a while to 'find myself' again and re-discover my love for a number of things.  I...

Over the weekend was the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch and for the first time this year, I joined in. Previous years I was deeply ensconc...

WoW - what a lovely ❤  response to the photo scavenger hunt! Such a brilliant variety of pictures and stories - I love being able to visit y...

Welcome to the first Scavenger Photo-hunt of 2018! Hope you all had a good start to the year and you are all ready off the starter bloc...

Yellow Our first walk of the year was on a rather dull (but fortunately dry) day. One of the photos I took was the one above.  I'd ...

During the days when I am out in the studio I am lucky enough to watch the birds visiting the feeder table. There are the ground feeders - ...

yesterday :  cold, wet and blustery. I hunkered down in the studio,  heater on, radio on, flask of coffee, mittens on, scarf on, th...

... for soup to cook. A pan full of vegetables. Some bought a couple of days ago, some harvested out the garden, the rest ...

The tree outside the window is quietly shedding the raindrops it accumulated over night. It is still dark so the streetlamp has highlighted ...