Self Isolation – Simon’s Cat

boeuf stroganoff

the pancakes yesterday were soft, tasty and traditional and – not made by me im ashamed to say sometime ago went on a course to learn how to cook french food and i can make a reasonable tarte tatin, chocolate profiteroles filled with ice cream – most things on a good day, taste not too […]

Día de Muertos – in Memory of Lost Pet

Día de Muertos in Spain and Mexico celebrates family no longer with you, this must include animals you have loved very much. We would be very happy to create a small version of your much loved pets – smallwoollyelephant

Thousand Fluffys

trying to get Fluffy to recognize his name, called and a thousand Fluffys looked up – guess he must be called something completely different.

Tale of benjamin bunny and a vagabond cat

Looking to top of our garden in the evening, could see two, three rabbits almost doing leap frog, running and almost playing tag among the apple trees. Looking closer noticed an enormous rabbit hole had appeared near the hedge by the road. almost expected to see a row of washing and a white picket fence […]

London

What happened yesterday in London was a terrible thing and the police and emergency services have done and are doing an incredible job to care for and protect innocent victims caught up in yesterdays events. cant imagine what the surviving people and family and friends of all of them are feeling today but in my […]

Dachsund smelling the flowers

We can make one like this for you or you can buy cards, prints, pillows, tote bags, shower curtains – from us at FAA or Pixels.com

Being in another part of the World..

and snowed under with own stuff doesnt mean in this joined up World we arnt effected by what is happening elsewhere. Obviously, we live somewhere else so this is just one opinion from far away – althou we will all be effected by it. The Olympics is happening at the moment – and thought the […]

Flora MacDonald and Cheep Cheep in mossy nest

Available to buy from Etsy

Skellig

In our village every two years we have a Summer fair with a Scarecrow Competition and this was one of the Scarecrows about the main character ‘Skellig’ in a children’s novel by David Almond. A story about a boy who had a baby sister with a heart problem and he learned from his mother that […]

Sport

“Alonso said in an Instagram post after incident on Sunday: ‘I am lucky to be here and thankful to be here. I am aware that today I spent some of the luck remaining in life. I want to thank McLaren and the FIA for the safety of this car. I am alive thanks to the […]

Golden Lion Tamarin Monkey

Notice sometimes things you make, take on a life of their own..

Beagle in a Chaise Lounge

Inbetween rain showers we ran out and took a photo of our Beagel in a Chaise Lounge available from http://www.honeybeeswax.com

Difficult to forget

Trying to avoid all the discussion about working mums, being one myself, not because wanted to, but because needed to support my son from a few weeks old. My work, a Swedish company present both in the UK and Sweden told me to quit my job because i was having a baby but i could […]

UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency – figures

Below is a link to an article from UNHCR including figures comparing 2013 and 2014. Interestingly the figures quoted are for applications for refuge, not figures for refuge offered. Asylum trends for 2014 “In the 1990s, the Balkan wars created hundreds of thousands of refugees and asylum-seekers. Many of them found refuge in industrialized countries. […]

Kenny

.. taken October 2011

Just passing by

Longer days and more outside, funny how thou we’ve had a mild wet winter, outside looks likes its waking up from deep sleep. Trying to grow more bedding plants and herbs than usual because hoping might be able to sell them at markets. So we’ve borrowed some metal hoops and buying some plastic to make […]

It must be Spring Pinny

Last of Christmas Dogs

Tried very hard to match the larger than life personality of Elvis and Dolores – they should be film stars and the little terriers are the last two of the Brighton dog tribe

Looking after our neighborhood

… never forget, you are awesome