Category: The Cotswolds
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Back to The Cotswolds
For August Bank Holiday weekend we booked ourselves a little stay at Honeysuckle. Hooray! Did you know it’s been almost two years since we stayed here? We moved up here in January 2013 and moved to East Sussex almost a year ago to the day. Late Summer at Honeysuckle Cottage – Daylesford Organic Farm Cornwell…
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Wilderness Festival 2013
Some photos from our day at The Wilderness Festival 2013 at Cornbury Estate in Charlbury. Nicely for us just a fifteen minute drive from home. Nobody complained about being bored or tired (big tick). Ice cream was enjoyed by all. Parents are now knackered. So are the girls. Goodnight x
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A Cotswolds cottage kitchen story
Welcome to our little kitchen, the last in the series of our little Cotswolds cottage. We are leaving here in less than two weeks – off for adventures new, and a place to call home for a long time. The kitchen is what really sold me on the house. The cooker to be precise. Even…
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Dusk (and Kevin calling Oscar). A little (unedited) film.
Cornwell evening from Anknel and Burblets on Vimeo. A lot of people seem to like my Instagrams of the daily view and Alex had been asking me for some time what it sounded like out here. So I finally read the instructions on how to use my 5d to shoot video. It took ages to…
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A Cotswolds bedroom: Garden Trading Brompton Lamp and Farrow and Ball fixes
Welcome to our teeny tiny little bedroom! It just fits our gigantic superking IKEA bed in it – a bed I am very keen to replace, or paint, or chop the headboard off. Slowly slowly I’m changing our mid century and modern furniture. Fixing it up, tightening old screws, hammering old nails back in place. And…
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The Wilderness Treasure Hunt
Last weekend we wrapped up warm and headed over to the magical Cornbury Estate for the Wilderness Treasure Hunt. In the lead-up to the Wilderness Festival in August, local residents are invited along to a few special events which are just brilliant for the children – and indeed fun for the grown-ups too. A taste…
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Dreaming of warm days and country lanes
We had another gorgeous day today. It just began to warm up in the afternoon. In fact it was an amazing day today. I had three hours of book writing and then as usual I left myself just five minutes to get Edith – from desk to nursery! I usually make it driving like a…
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In the Cotswolds countryside
Well, we’ve been here nearly three weeks. Or is it nearly four weeks? We’ve had sunshine, we’ve had snow, we’ve had a howling wind. We’ve had the most incredible frost – something I’ve not had since I was a child at school in the frozen fields at 55 Amy Street, Ellerslie. Otherwise known as Michael…
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Sister Mag Daylesford White Christmas feature
A Daylesford White Christmas feature and recipes by moi – from page 132 to 163 in the December issue of Sister Magazine. You’ll see the photos from my rainy market garden trip (where I had my eureka moment) and the recipes I spent the October mid-term week creating up at Honeysuckle Cottage with the girls.…
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Our new life
It’s all signed now. We are moving right after New Year. I’m getting final removals quotes and I am going to start packing next week.The house is a lot smaller than the one we’re currently in so in order to be totally scientific about the move we went up and measured the house over the…
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Remember that last trip to the Cotswolds… ?
And remember how I said how sad it was driving up past the place we didn’t rent? And I was really upset that we hadn’t moved there? And while we were up there I decided I really did want to move and this time it really was going to work out. I know I said…
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Cosy at Daylesford
Oh it’s been a fun week at Daylesford. With winter almost upon us the fresh vegetables in the farm shop are incredible, and most of them are from their own garden – such a sight when all the ‘from our own garden’ boxes are ticked. It makes me truly happy to see that. It’s always a…