Circle of the Year

I really enjoy winter days like today. It's rather grey and miserable, the once pristine snow is now slushy and dirty looking and it...

We finally had some proper snow overnight on Sunday so I took my camera with me when B Baggins and I went out this morning. He seemed to ...

Grass afield wears silver thatch; Palings all are edged with rime; Frost flowers pattern round the latch; Cloud nor breeze dissolve t...

My son has asked me to give his blog a plug to try and attract a little more traffic to it:) I'm sure many readers of my blog will be...

Well, here we are in 2013 with a whole twelve months full of possibilities ahead of us. I'm planning to blog more regularly again...

I hope everyone had as good a Christmas as we did. These are just a few photos from Christmas Eve - not great as there were a lot of peo...

Here we are again with my traditional Christmas Eve post:) The Night Before Christmas was always my children's bedtime story on ...

" So the shortest day came, and the year died, And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world Came people singing, dan...

At 11am on the 11th of November each year our busy lives stop for a brief moment as we remember all those who have given their lives in th...

I don't have time to write a new post so this is a repeat from 2009:)  Sunset today will mark the beginning of Samhain, the last of t...

" This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.  He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,  Will stand a tip-toe when this d...

On a beautiful autumn afternoon my friend P and I took B Baggins and his friend Bertie up on Big Moor for a short walk. The colours on the...