It's a few years now since I was sat on the sofa one October evening....
Reflections of a Sussex Girl in the Peak District.
It's a few years now since I was sat on the sofa one October evening....
You know that feeling when you wake up on a winters' morning, and before you've even got out of bed you know that the world outside is covered in a thick blanket of snow. You haven't yet looked, but there is a change in light and sound, a stillness, that excites you (well me at…
fields are filled with gazillions of tall, stately buttercups...
One by One, they show their face...
The ladies line the country lanes...
My weeks are passing really quickly at the moment going from one Nonna Thursday to the next. Its not long before I'm parking my Beetle 'Daisy' outside my sons house and Sebbie is standing on the sofa, looking out of the window, full of excitement for another 'Nonna bursday'. I crouch down outside so I'm…
I hold your tiny hand in mine...
if you are cold tea will warm you, if you are heated tea will cool you...
Happy New Year everyone đŸ¥° I just saw this fun video on Instagram from my brother Colin. He is the minister of a church in Boston USA along with his wife Liz. Looks like all services are out and its time to 'Build a Snowman'. Love Alison x
I asked my children to send me some videos of 'A Christmouse Tale' for advertising. This was the result!! Gotta love a grandaughter called Olive and Burt and Elvis the slightly bored GrandogsđŸ¥° Thanks guys. https://booksbyalisonstore.etsy.com Love Alison x
Christmas just isn't Christmas without 'A Christmouse Tale'.
It was raining yesterday afternoon in the Peaks. It was a much needed storm to break the heaviness of the warm climate we have been enjoying over the last few weeks. I'm certain that gardeners everywhere were saying it was a blessing, and those who have been struggling in the heat would have welcomed the…
Last week I wrote a blog about 'Green England'. Today Daisy and I, whilst thoroughly enjoying some time together on a beautiful warm june day thought we would share some of that 'Green England' with you. The Hawthorn is sheer heaven, ive never seen it looking so amazing and didnt realize till now how much…
Its difficult not to be filled with Joy as the freshness of the greenness...
"Why me Mum?"
I always think of Sheep as being white until it snows, then they suddenly become a rather mirky shade of yellow as they forage around knee deep, hoping to find something to eat under the white blankets that now cover their once green fields, Driving up to the Peak District today was like driving through…
Well how on earth has this happened, could someone please explain to me how I got to be this age!! Did I blink? or fall asleep and wake up 60 years later. My mum was 60 once but me....no I cant be. YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS! What, sorry, did you say its my birthday tomorrow,…
https://booksbyalisonstore.etsy.com/ Love her to bits Love Alison x
Feeling rather joyful that I accomplished what I set out to do at the beginning of the year. A Christmous Tale can be ordered from Etsy if you would like a copy. https://booksbyalisonstore.etsy.com/ Love Alison x
A few Christmases ago I posted a poem on my blog that I had written for Arlo, my first grandchild. He loved the poem, and the book I made him that Christmas has been kept safely in his Christmas book bag and brought out each year. At the beginning of 2022 I decided to look…
Another Autumn is here and life is changing once again.
whilst singing "By the rivers of Babylon"....
i realized I had left the dog at the park...
For some crazy reason an alarm was set for 3.30 am this morning but I think when you look through the photos you will probably agree that it was well worth the sacrifice! Im told by some that 'its all down hill from today' but I would like to think that Summer is just beginning…
Being a grandparent is surprisingly lovely, although I still have to pinch myself to believe that I am one. I cant believe that this little baby girl has reached her first birthday already and that Arlo who is soon to be 4 now has a baby brother 'Sebbie Rafe' who is just 5 months old.…