Author: Vicki

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There is a definite change in the air as I write my summer journal post. Summer brought with her a bounty of fruit and I’ve already made blackberry jam and spiced pear crumble, which feels early and really should be a more autumnal pursuit! August was a busy and wonderful…

Modern life and long daylight hours can take it out of you! Pressure to ‘make the most of it’ – seeing friends, making trips, eating late, and squeezing as much as possible into each day can take its toll and leave you feeling depleted. Time for a creative top up;…

With the longest day passed and the foxgloves going to seed, I always feel a bit melancholy at the thought of another June drawing to a close. The hedgerows are at their peak of brilliance in early June, with the following summer weeks starting to bleach the grasses and transform…

May you have been a very merry month! With sunny days and bursting hedgerows. To celebrate the season I planned a little Regency-inspired garden tea. I cut and folded into big flouncy bows a lovely pink cotton toile fabric, I then wired the bows onto jars, popped in some sherbet…

April has been glorious, watching the trees leaf up and the cherry blossoms bloom (one of my favourites). It’s a great day when dining can begin alfresco with regular lunch and breakfasts in the garden and our first dinner of the season tonight! There are all sorts of flower seeds…

March has been a gorgeous month of blue skies and frosty nights, which have marvellously delayed my planting so I can catch up in the garden! And drink tea in the sun. Easter is late this year giving me longer to savour the thought of it, one of my absolute…

February has given us some warmer days and the first of the spring blooms, it certainly lifts the spirits and has me reaching for colour charts and vibrant fabric swatches. I’ve been busy with floral quotes for weddings and events taking place both this year and next, its lovely spending…

January seems to have flown or more aptly ‘blown’ by, with storm after storm, calling for cosy days working in front of the roaring wood burner interspersed with blustery bouts of winter gardening. I’ve been in London again this month and made a visit to the National Portrait Gallery, I…