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The Best National Trust Property to Visit
As usual, I found the most interesting and best room in the house to be the kitchen. I just love a good kitchen! I find them to be quite simply, comforting and inspirational. I'm sure I say this everytime I share a National Trust visit with you - but it really is the heart of the home.
Under An English Sky Podcast Has Relaunched!
Craft Creative Year Crochet cross stitch Embroidery Knitting Podcast
The relaunch episode of Under An English Sky Podcast is now live.
April Reflections & Yarn Shop Update
Craft Creative Year Knitting Podcast Yarn
On my needles, I am knitting a sweet little lacy baby dress using a skein of Miss Potters Paintbox. I think the colours are very springlike and I am loving working with this yarn. Don't you just love the sweet little forget-me-not flowers? I think they compliment the yarn quite nicely.
A Perfect Day
Have you ever watched the intro to Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit series? Oh it's just lovely! One of my favorite things. It opens with 'Beatrix Potter' painting in the Cumbrian countryside... it's all just so perfectly English and shows exactly what our lovely countryside is all about. Here, I'll show you... I love how the rain washes the countryside clean - you can almost smell the rain hitting the earth. Well today is one of those days here in my bit of England. The scent's and scenes instantly conjured up memories of the clip shown above and of the song...
Lets Catch Up!
Hello my lovely friends. How I have missed you all! As regular readers will know, I decided to see if I could take my legal studies further and enrolled on the Bar Practice Course last year. It has been an immense challenge and I can see why they say it is one of the most challenging courses you can do next to medicine. It has been all consuming in every single way. There have been times when I thought it might never end and where I felt that I was a mere shadow of the person I once was. But,...