I prefer reading

First, the roses. These are the first roses of the summer, picked on Sunday morning. The pink ones are Eglantine & the red, The Squire...

Why do we stop reading an author? Sometimes we grow out of them, sometimes we stop reading what they write eg science fiction or Regency r...

A few weeks of one of my favourite poets, Emily Dickinson. As you can see in the picture, I have two collections of her work, The Complete...

Time of Hope is the first book chronologically in C P Snow's Strangers and Brothers series. It was the third book to be published but...

More collages, mostly books but one of Lucky & Phoebe. The photo of Phoebe on the bonnet of my car was taken a few months ago but the ...

I've spent a lot of time in the garden this weekend - digging over a garden bed full of roots, digging in compost in the front garden ...

Three women who have been friends since university travel to Unst in Shetland when one of them, Caroline, marries Lowrie Malcolmson, a She...