The History of the Housewife. The broadcast date for 24 Hours in the Past has been confirmed. A Magazine for Vintage Lovers and the Nostalgic. Originally posted on Sleeping on the Edge of Sleep. If you read my blog, you may have noticed a new addition to my sidebar.

Friday, 2 March 2018. Soon! You may or may not be pleased to hear that we are soon to be back in business. Thursday, 16 March 2017.

It feels strange to say it but I am blogging over here. I am going to miss this place but I felt it was time for a change. I know I wrote about a similar topic last winter, about the sacred spaces. This time though I am thinking more about a shared history as well as our connection to the land. Our house was at the edge of the city, a newish part of an old suburb, only the third house in the street. This place held hours and hours of play.

The end of last year brought a new incumbent to the garage. Tuesday, 31 July 2012. Thursday, 5 July 2012.

Life, Creativity, and Getting On With It. Domestic ramblings from rural England. I have a bed of nasturtiums in my garden. Once the butterflies had flown, the nasturtiums recovered! I was so delighted to see that they are all in flower again, and are giving us some much needed autumn colour.

At every step you make me digress; today I do not know whither I am destined. Thursday, February 05, 2015. I went along to the first meeting in the local library not really knowing what to expect. There were five of us, ranging in age from late sixties to mid-eighties, plus Rowena, the convener of the group. And Bring up the Bodies.

We also did the usual text messaging which was surprisingly easy this year.

Realising the full gravity of a trip to Mablethorpe. Had a thoroughly splendid time. Well, you know that feeling when the night train rushes past and the lit.

Gnoming Around - A Garden Trip. Come into the garden, Maud,. For the black bat, night, has flown,. Come into the garden, Maud,. I am here at the gate alone;. And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad,. And the musk of the rose is blown. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. And an old Singer sewing machine trestle that fits in nicely with the O-So-Silkie. Needlework enamel sign on the back wall of our house.

A Country Lost and a Country Found. Monday, 3 August 2015. The Jesuits leased it to Stanford University of California, it subsequently being sold to the current owners the University of Evansville, Indiana, as their English campus. Thursday, 16 July 2015. In fact the last picture in the book. Tuesday, 2 June 2015.