My Quiet Life in Suffolk

The Christian festival of Epiphany, commemorating the arrival of the wise men who travelled far to visit the new baby. In some countries it ...

 Not many things for X  so it's Xmas Fairs again! the same as 2023 With the end of car boot sales I find these are fun to go to, to get ...

 For every group, every charity, every village,  fundraising is key to keeping things going. My favourite sort of fundraiser is a charity bo...

 I found another new box of Christmas crackers for £1 at the last boot sale, I have enough for a small army!  I was surprised how heavy thes...

 It's the start of the Autumn Fayre season. Fundraisers for villages all around. From November they will be called Christmas Fayres, but...

No sooner had I written about the named storms that might arrive this year and Storm Amy blew into Northern Ireland, Scotland and Northern E...

  Not  made in wartime! but using the wartime recipe that I wrote about on the 23rd  HERE .  I didn't try it myself before Boxing Day an...

 I had some lovely Christmas cards, didn't need to hide any away!  Good pressies Got myself the Folklore Diary after a break of a few ye...

 .............................................isn't a holiday in most parts of the world............so Lucky Us!   Boxing Day became a ...

  Thank you to everyone who writes, reads and comments. Hope you have the best possible Christmas. Sue

 It's no wonder people spend more than normal at Christmas time when the shelves are full of specially packaged food that looks so festi...

Bought myself the Festive Puzzle Collection - for a change from reading -  these Take a Break Puzzle magazines always come with a pen that f...

 I've got lots of Christmas tree decorations gathered over 40 years and only a smallish tree so a few years ago everything got sorted in...

Decadent a noun meaning a person who is luxuriously  self-indulgent . Decaden t December.................... This is a month that comes in b...

 Some weeks I only get to chat to people at the Keep Moving Exercise group - it doesn't bother me, I'm happy at home alone anyway. B...

 This is where I headed on Saturday morning. It sounded more interesting than the usual Christmas Fayres and  was being held at the place wh...

 This time last year we'd had so much rain and everywhere there were floods and the weather had been chilly too. Thank goodness this Oct...

 I've bought my Christmas Present from my BiL!  He doesn't know yet. I've not had a Country Wisdom and Folklore Diary from  Talk...

..............from the Isle of Wight  was this (plus photos and memories). The IOW is well known for being the biggest producer of Garlic in...

 Getting a new "thing" that needs instructions to put it together and how to use it is to be avoided at all costs in my home excep...