The newish curiosity shop
Today’s post is brought to you by the Chipping Campden Tourism Promotion Board. R and I were so bored with home by today that we needed to be somewhere else – and where is there that’s more guaranteed to cheer … Continued
Today’s post is brought to you by the Chipping Campden Tourism Promotion Board. R and I were so bored with home by today that we needed to be somewhere else – and where is there that’s more guaranteed to cheer … Continued
This is my absolutely favourite house in Chipping Campden. If R cared about me even slightly, he’d have bought it for me the last time it was on the market. Not that I’m bitter…. Anyway, I’m usually a bit uncomfortable … Continued
It suddenly occurred to me this morning that we’re actually quite close to Christmas now, and while I don’t like to make a fuss about it too early, now seemed like a good day to be starting to panic. As … Continued
This is the lovely and elegant interior of the Georgian Chapel at Compton Verney, where R and I heard the most wonderful concert this afternoon. The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir, a group of about two dozen excellent student singers … Continued
R and I were walking back to the car after shopping – or, as it turned out, window-shopping – in Chipping Campden this morning, and I looped round to take a few wide-angle shots of the church. I was just … Continued
R and I went to Compton Verney today, to see the exhibition Magnum Manifesto – obviously this was more my thing than his, but we both enjoyed it, and I found sections of it quite inspirational. I had known a … Continued
The village did flood overnight, but not as badly as a couple of weeks ago, so I hope that all our neighbours’ homes stayed dry this time. There were only a few inches of water over the lane outside our … Continued
When I last saw the rheumatologist a few months ago, I ‘fessed up to a few things, and he sent me for a battery of tests and scans. Today I went back and saw him again, and we had an … Continued