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After some discussion and a look at the weather forecast, we decided at the last minute to have B & B for our two nights away and after finding a £295 hotel for £110, it didn’t take much to persaud...

This is our favourite video for how to put our pop up tent away. We have to watch it several times before going just to refresh our minds which way up it has to be and which corners to fold...

After a week celebrating my husbands 60th birthday, culminating in a huge party last night and a day recovering, we are off in the Bongo tomorrow for a couple of days break. We don’t do luxury, but love roughing it...

My elderflower champagne has already blown a top! On Wednesday morning there was a loud bang and I couldn’t think where it came from, so dismissed it. It wasn’t until I went to the cupboard later that afternoon that I...

Last June I made elderflower champagne for the first time and with everything blooming a few weeks early this year, my friend Shirley and I went out to collect our elderflower heads. Preferably they should be picked when the first...

A break from painting on canvas, today was the day to rally the troops – ie, my husband and son and paint the roadside of our garden wall. I have been waiting for this to be done for five years....