A lifestyle blog
We love exploring, either close to home on an afternoon out, slightly further afield on a weekend away, or to a far flung destination picked because it happened to be on page 83 of the travel guide and we were asked to pick a number between 1 and 230.
I had to double check with Annie that I could join How Does Your Garden Grow when I wasn’t actually talking about a garden. How does your verge grow, doesn’t have the same ring does it? Or How Does Your Central Reservation Grow. Just no. Last week whilst driving to Tesco my mind was racing with all the things I had to remember. Not just the shopping list
Think of it as like Disney for grown ups. And the best bit is that it is only an hour away at Laverstoke Mill: Bombay Sapphire Distillery Did you know that ALL the Bombay Sapphire gin made in the world is made in one factory in Hampshire? If you don’t you are not alone. I had no idea but then I didn’t really know much about gin production until
When I wrote about the gardens at Mottisfont last week I promised I would come back and share some pictures from the house. It really is one of my favourite National Trust Houses I have visited recently. Mainly because you can climb the attic staircase and see the maid’s room. I have always said if had lived in a big house “back in the olden days” it would have
Yesterday I headed down the M3 to another National Trust house for a wander around Mottisfont Abbey and gardens, with Annie. I knew nothing of either the house or garden, but having now read the guide book I really do recommend you go and visit. The place is steeped history, people have lived there for over 800 years when it began life as an Augustinian Monesterary in the 12 century.
Well there’s an alliteration. That window above is today’s feature on Window Wednesday, taken in Woolbeding Church last weekend. (by Mr B I must add) Tucked away in a little village in West Sussex is a hamlet called Woolbeding, just outside Midhurst. We were down that way this weekend and my parents suggested we drop in as it is the church that they worship in whenever it is open (three
This window at Winchester City Mill might just be my favourite window of all time Sometimes the real picture is behind you I don’t know if that is an actual quote but sometimes I feel it should be. We always focus on looking forwards, or staring at what we think we should be looking at, that we miss something else entirely. Something that actually be more of a story. I
As I mentioned yesterday, today on the blog I am sharing some pictures from the garden at Hinton Ampner. This is a National Trust house just outside Petersfield and if you are ever in the area do go. In fact, I have a tip to share with you that was given to me by the lovely lady on the customer service desk when we visited. Lots of National
For How Does Your Garden Grow This week I am sharing some photos I took yesterday from Guildford Castle. I didn’t even know Guildford had a castle and I have lived ten miles down the road for ten years (you may recall something similar happened with Farnham Castle, as I mentioned in this post: Farnham Castle Keep ). The only thing I knew about Guildford other than the fact
We first realised that there might be something special about Room 302 where we were staying at the Walpole Bay Hotel in Margate when ten minutes after checking into our room a tour bus full of ladies from a WI tried to get into our room to have a look at it. Most apologetic when they realised Mr B was making use of the free wi-fi whilst lying on the
Yes you did read that correctly. When I got an email from Visit England asking me if I would like to take part in some St George’s day activity celebrating all thing patriotic I was chuffed. That sounded like it might be fun, I thought. This time last year we were gearing up for a garden party at Buckingham Palace where we didn’t get to meet the Queen
I must admit I wasn’t really “that” aware of there being such a thing as “Turner’s Skies” until I started doing some digging ahead of our weekend in Margate. The more I looked into though the more I realised that the sky and the landscape in that part of Kent really played a huge role in shaping Turner’s paintings. And now having been there it is easy to see
That sounds like a children’s word game or rather unfortunate medical condition. Not a beauty spot that I ended up going to this week, almost by accident. I had met Annie just up the road at Hinton Ampner for a couple of hours of nattering and photography and on the way there we had both spotted the sign to Cheesefoot Head. So after our wander around Hinton (to