I'm wondering if it's a sign that I've finally reached middle-age when my idea of a good afternoon is wandering round other pe...

Just like the Lilac sugar recipe, this gorgeously fragrant syrup makes good use of things that are around us abundantly at this time of...

It's very early on a summer's morning and I'm sitting in the garden, well before the rest of the household stirs.  It's qu...

When the sun is shining and you have a few hours free (and you're in striking distance of South West London) then you couldn't do...

I don't normally hanker after houses in the city, after all I live in one; but this one happens to be just around the corner to where...

I guess everyone dreams of a space they can call their own.  Most of us can squirrel away a corner in our home and some of us are lucky en...

I've always been drawn to the colour green; maybe it's it's supposed therapeutic qualities, or just because it draws out the c...

Petersham Nursery  is a little oasis of calm, residing just off the Thames tow-path near Richmond.  For many years it was the home of Au...

 enjoying 'The Simple Things' with a coffee on Richmond Green//sweet little candy tin from favourite Italian deli//bubbles by cand...

Don't you just love a blowsy, overblown peony?  I can't get enough of their full pink or white skirts, their buxom form is just a ...

If like me you live in the city, it's not always easy to find the space to grow things, whether that be flowers or food, but that does...