L&F Country Tales

It was time for the fun bit!  Colours, fixtures, fittings, door furniture (I learned to call it that: ‘knobs and knockers’ still tragically reduced us all to a pulp of childish laughter) fabrics … the bit I had been really...

In the first January the four door, tomato red Aga we had bought with the house finally died.  The beast had only ever loved the Vendor, and it had disliked me from the moment I had first walked into the...

As we began month whatever (I didn’t dare count) of the Great Plan, I came to fear for my marriage.  If Eeyore, when asked how it was all going had said just once more that ‘It’s really not too bad!’...

So: to recap.  We had moved, lock stock and barrel, to a part of the world we didn’t know, full of strangers, in the middle of a record-breaking heatwave. After two weeks of us looking at the view and revelling...

Don’t you just love it when people with far less to do than you keep telling you how busy they are?  As though you aren’t, and are therefore a lesser being? For a long time when we first made the...

God was clearly having yet another laugh at our expense.  He had seen fit to send us two conveniently sedentary offspring : first was a hideously ill child who didn't walk until he was two, and then had to be...

Who knew?!  You ARE interested in how it all began!  Well, you asked for it ….. “Children properly managed” my mother always said, “can be made to pay.”  As I’m one of five spanning twelve years, I should have realised...