I’m trying some new mini cross stitch kits – this Toadstool is by Trimmits, which I haven’t used before. Usually,…
Shaking My Family Tree: (15) March 2024
On this day, in 1913, my maternal grandparents married at the Protestant Reformers Church in Liverpool. On the morning of…
Cross Stitch Meditations: February 2024
I mentioned last month that I had finally decided on the backing for our niece’s 50th birthday present (3 of…
Cross Stitch Meditations: January 2024
After my failure to stitch more than a couple of Christmas cards, I decided the best plan of action is…
Shaking My Family Tree: A Retrospective
I managed to produce ten posts in 2023, each looking at different members on my family tree. I enjoyed all…
Read the Leaflet
Here in the UK we have severe gales and flooding. I live halfway up a small Welsh mountain and we…
From Our Home to Yours
Season’s Greetings
Another Birthday
When I was a child, I couldn’t wait for my next birthday. I always wanted to be older, more grown-up. As…
Cross Stitch Meditations: December
I haven’t devoted as much time to my cross-stitch recently, but have been working – slowly – on these mini-Christmas…
Remembering Mum
9 December 1928 to 8 December 1995 In a corner of a woodland gardenBeneath a three-stemmed treeWhere a hidden river…
Shaking My Family Tree (14)
This time, I’m researching closer to home by sending off for copies of my parents’ birth and marriage certificates and…
Christmas Tree For Sale
How was your weekend? Mine hasn’t been that great – on Saturday at least. We have owned two optical fibre…
Community (4): The End (for now)
The Creative Writing for Beginners course I have been running for the last six weeks finished on 30th October. I…
Shaking my Family Tree (13)
Ancestry, once you have populated your family tree on their site, is remarkably helpful in giving reminders of upcoming anniversaries…
Cross Stitch Meditations: on failure
This freebie by Durene Jones Cross Stitch popped up on Facebook on Friday 4th August. It’s a small design, with…
Community (3)
Last night was the first of our community learning events and it went well, I think. Four different tables of…
Community (2)
I never thought we’d get to this stage, but the village community hub has received some funding from the National…
September Jobs: Sweeping the Chimney
We are the lucky – for now* – owners of a woodburning stove. It’s getting on a bit now, so…
Shaking my Family Tree (12)
This month (August), instead of my writing group’s usual round of submit a piece of writing by email for face-to-face…
Cross Stitch Meditations: July
After all the stress of our renovations (almost complete), matters went from bad to worse when my husband’s only sister…
Community
No matter how hard you try, if your community doesn’t get behind you it’s unlikely that an event will be…
Disruption close to conclusion
Things get worse before they get better!
Shaking My Family Tree (11)
109 years ago today on 9 July 1916, my maternal grandfather, Alexander Francis Palmer, was wounded during the Battle of…
Shaking My Family Tree (10)
On the 6th April 1915, my paternal grandfather, William Herbert Turton, son of John Stirrup Turton, enlisted in the King’s…
Cross Stitch Meditations: June
No ‘Meditations’ for May as we’ve been far to busy with the damproof course (completed on 12 May). Because we…
Disruption Continues
It was the 10th of May when I first posted about the work we were having done on the house…
A New Community Venture
Back in November 2021 there was a proposal to set up a Community Hub in a nearby village. This would…
Death of an Artist
Today, I learnt that a friend I’d met through a writing group workshop (before Covid closed everything down) had passed…
Shaking My Family Tree (9)
Incorrect recording of 1881 Census details. The jobs people did. And brief social history too.
Disruption
We are having a new damp-proof course due to damp and black mould in our dining room! We first had…
Write Here: Write Now 