I will probably live to regret the title of this post – so if anybody unsavoury comes to visit I am telling you now, this is not the sort of site you think it is and you might well want to be on your way. Any smarmy, smutty or other unsuitable remarks will invoke the [...]

  Only two days to go…in fact in two days time I’ll be sitting in the plane to London and the Fat Quarterly Retreat. This thought makes me so insanely happy that I almost can’t believe it’s true. Having been away last weekend, coming home to slight chaos and lots to do, I’m all a [...]

This morning finds me back in the hurley burley of family life, doing laundry, cleaning, taking the cat to the vet….you know what I mean….tackling the carnage after a long weekend when I wasn’t here keeping order as I went along….. Mind you, it’s worth it because I got to spend the weekend here…. Chateau [...]

For the next couple of days I shall be here… ….doing a bit of this…. ….and a little of that…. and I shall come home a new woman! Helen

I was really overwhelmed by the number of people who took part in the giveaway and it was great to hear where everyone’s favourite places are. For maybe half of you your favourite place is home – which is a pretty good state of affairs in my book! I love being at home too….but for [...]