Advent: 10th December Limoncello
Every year at Christmas I always come up with one scheme or another to make something a bit different to eat or drink. Last year it was raspberry gin and pickled pears. This year I stumbled across the recipe for Limoncello via the Domestic Sluttery Blog and though that I would give it a go. …
Advent: 9th December Christmas tree festival
A lovely display of trees again this year – 37 trees and 37 charities. This years theme was to think outside the box and there certainly were some lovely and unusual entries. The festival closes at 4.00pm today so you still have time to get to All saints church in Shipdham if you are…
Advent: 8th December – An unexpected sunset
Today I was going to be Blogging about the Shipdham Christmas Tree Festival which kicked off this whole advent blog idea last year. Driving across to Shipdham the sky was amazing. For a change I had a decent camera with me so I seized the moment. I have loads of photos of the Christmas trees…
Advent: 8th December – An unexpected sunset
Today I was going to be Blogging about the Shipdham Christmas Tree Festival which kicked off this whole advent blog idea last year. Driving across to Shipdham the sky was amazing. For a change I had a decent camera with me so I seized the moment. I have loads of photos of the Christmas trees…
Advent: 7th December – Not a Christmas tree!
If you were driving along the road into Shropham at lunchtime and you saw a mad woman on the side of the road in the rain with a camera that was me. I had intended to take pictures of something else today but spotted this amazing prehistoric looking tree and just had to take some…
Advent: 7th December – Not a Christmas tree!
If you were driving on the road into Shropham at lunchtime and you saw a mad woman on the side of the road in the rain with a camera that was me. I had intended to take pictures of something else today but spotted this amazing prehistoric looking tree and just had to take some…
Advent blog: 6th December – Frosty dead things
Winter has arrived with a vengeance! We had a light sprinkling of snow last night and a sharp frost so there were some lovely things to shoot in the garden this morning. My excuse for notclearing the dried summer plants in the garden is of course because of the lovely photo opportunities that they offer!
Advent blog: 6th December – Frosty dead things
Winter has arrived with a vengeance! We had a light sprinkling of snow last night and a sharp frost so there were some lovely things to shoot in the garden this morning. My excuse for notclearing the dried summer plants in the garden is of course because of the lovely photo opportunities that they offer!
Advent Blog: 5th December – Darkness into light
Back to Advent Sunday again! After I had finished photographing the nativity I was invited to go back for the Darkness into Light Advent service to take some more photos. As Sunday was my birthday (don’t ask how old!) I said I couldn’t stay for the whole service (Geoff had planned the roast beef for…
Advent Blog: 5th December – Darkness into light
Back to Advent Sunday again! After I had finished photographing the nativity I was invited to go back for the Darkness into Light Advent service to take some more photos. As Sunday was my birthday (don’t ask how old!) I said I couldn’t stay for the whole service (Geoff had planned the roast beef for…
Advent Blog: 4th December
Today has been very cold and when you sit at a desk in an old house with out much heating you need a bit of warming up! Cue a visit to the fridge to gather up all the slightly tired looking veggies to turn them into a lovely soup. This is my homemade minestrone. To…
Advent Blog: 4th December – Winter warming soup
Today has been very cold and when you sit at a desk in an old house with out much heating you need a bit of warming up! Cue a visit to the fridge to gather up all the slightly tired looking veggies to turn them into a lovely soup. This is my homemade minestrone. …
Advent Blog: 3rd December – Scary dummy!
We love a good Christmas ghost story in our house – from the scholarly chillers of M R James to modern adaptations like Crickley Hall which concluded last night. One of our favourite ways to enjoy a story is to sit round the fire by candle light while someone reads a spine chiller – even…
Advent Blog: 3rd December
We love a good Christmas ghost story in our house – from the scholarly chillers of M R James to modern adaptations like Crickley Hall which concluded last night. One of our favourite ways to enjoy a story is to sit round the fire by candle light while someone reads a spine chiller – even…
Advent Blog: 2nd December
This morning at the request of our village church I went to photograph a very unique Nativity which has been lovingly restored for Christmas this year. 1928, the Vicar of Carbrooke Rev. George Chambers commissioned a set of 24″ Plaster Nativity figures for Carbrooke Church, the figures were dressed in the style of 1920’s and…