My Quiet Life in Suffolk

 Have I done anything really interesting this week? No. I finished a small  book -  On This Holy Island  by Oliver Smith, he visited places ...

 First car boot sale of 2026 - nearly as big as a summer day - but a lot chillier. Plenty of sellers and buyers. This is one of the house cl...

 It's a good year for the roses - I'm sure that's a line of a song?  There are 6 different ones here and I've no idea what t...

 ....................from this week. Haven't had flowers in for a while, it's been so dry there are a shortage in the border but the...

 The weather was fine and the temperature just below freezing when I went to the first car-boot sale of the season on Saturday morning. Ther...

 Flowers on the bookshelf this week have been a few of the smaller side-spikes from a Foxglove, a couple of pieces of the Spirea and the tal...

 Bank Holiday Weekend last weekend was more or less a wash-out. I ventured out on the Saturday for two church visits but Sunday it poured al...

 There was some wild weather this week - high winds, torrential rain storms, ordinary rain and hail. We did have sun on a couple of days but...

 A much better week weather-wise - at last. The sun shone on more than one day - which is an achievement for this year so far. I went swimmi...

I looked after the MG and YGD on Saturday so that Son and DiL could go and find a new-to-them car. Second-hand cars are crazy expensive nowa...

 The daffodils at Aldi looked as if they'd been packed in a box for weeks so I left them where they were and dithered by the flower stal...

 I felt in need of flowers last week, there were so many dull days and I hadn't bought any since Christmas and nothing in the garden. Tu...

 Come and Join the Celebration. This is the happiest carol of them all! It was written for children but grown-ups can sing it too. I first h...

 Sorry about that title, but it's the frightening truth! It's the weekend when they have the flower festival in the little church at...

 I started the week by cutting my own hair again for the first time for ages. The price keeps going up at the hairdressers  in the village s...

Sorry to keep going on about the weather here but I want to shout very LOUDLY to the weather Gods - please can we have less of the NE wind a...

 With the Coronation Bank Holiday as well,  this is the third Monday BH of the month. Why did he have to get crowned in May - any other mont...

  Here we are on a special day for our country and I wonder how many people will be watching the Coronation? It's funny to remember than...

 Flowers on the table this week have been a beautiful bunch of roses from Son and DiL for Mother's Day. Son texted me Wednesday to ask i...

 A brief Sunday post with a plate of food! (I never wanted to be a food blogger - what's the matter with me for goodness sake!) Day 6 ma...