Soup of the month was another batch of sweet potato and coconut milk. Ingredients: 2 large sweet potatoes, 1 large…
Travels with my bus pass: a three-bus journey
The secret is in the research and planning ahead. Another day out and about by public transport yesterday. With the…
The Joy of Soup: February & March
Oops. I thought I’d posted this. We continue to be impressed by the soup maker. So far, at least, nothing…
Postcard from North Wales
With the conflict in the Middle East escalating, and UK fuel prices climbing (for cars, and heating), we are conscious…
The Joy of Soup
We’ve bought a soup maker. After weeks of “should we/shouldn’t we” (and finding a Morphy Richards 1.6l soup maker in…
Merry Christmas 2025 – and a Happy New Year for 2026
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Shaking My Family Tree (19)
Checking back, it’s a year since I last wrote a family tree post. I’m not sure if I previously mentioned…
I almost disappeared from WordPress
It’s been a while since I had to share a blog post with the Disappointed Dog face at the top.…
Postcard from North Wales: August
How often do we say “Let’s go out for the day” and end up driving miles to reach an attraction…
Postcard from North Wales (and Chester)
On Wednesday 9th July, we went to Chester on the bus. Well, actually we went from our home village to…
Postcard from North Wales: June 2025
When my husband and I retired from work and then completed our university studies, we lookd forward to using our…
Cross Stitch Meditations: May 2025
I have decided to move my cross stitch posts to a separate blog, which I am currently setting up under…
Cross Stitch Meditations: April 2025
Now that my big project is done and dusted, it is time to turn to building up a stock of…
A Birthday Celebration
When your husband reaches the age of 70 (5 April), the question is how to make it a special day?…
Cross Stitch Meditations: March 2025
As March began, I had been getting on with the sky/background and came to the conclusion that I really didn’t…
Cross Stitch Meditations: February 2025
I started the leaves on 29 January and completed the last one on 3 February. The picture is slowly coming…
Cross Stitch Meditations: January 2025
. Just before Christmas, this designer was offering half-price patterns on her Etsy page so I bought this one, and…
Cross Stitch Meditations: December
I’ve mostly gone tartan for Christmas 2024 using this pattern from Climbing Goat, very good for using up all those…
Shaking My Family Tree (18): November
Regular readers may remember my failure to find the correct birth date/certificate for my paternal grandmother, Ellen Duggan. Hoping for…
Cross Stitch Meditations: November 2024
With wet, cool and windy weather in October, thoughts turned to winter and Christmas. I’m not a big fan of…
Shaking My Family Tree (17) October
In September, I wrote about my mother and how I found out that she had lived in Welshpool for a…
Cross Stitch Meditations: August
Now that I’m thinking of teaching counted cross-stitch at our next Community Hub classes – funding allowing (applications in process),…
Cross Stitch Meditations: July 2024
I’ve been missing in action for a couple of months. Not had time to do cross stitch, but I’d picked…
Missing in Action
I’ve just realised that my last post on here was in April!! That doesn’t mean I haven’t been blogging, I…
Cross Stitch Mediations: April 2024
. Sad news this month. The hairdresser who has cut my hair since June 2002 has leaving! I am bereft…
Cross Stitch Meditations: March 2024
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…
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