Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Football…

The World Cup is on and I confess I have little interest in soccer… I just about keep up with the scores, and wish luck to teams I feel I have a connection to, like us and the Netherlands, but really it is not my sort of thing at all. However, in the spirit of […]

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Peony

I love peonies, they are so lush, whatever their colour or shade (and there are thousands) they are beautiful and often have the most delightful perfume. My parents had a lovely peony, a soft blush pink, deepening do a deep cerise, with golden stamens. It was so stunningly beautiful that people passing would stop to […]

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