My Quiet Life in Suffolk

    from   THE GARDEN IN SEPTEMBER Now thin mists temper the slow ripening beams Of the September sun: his golden gleams On gaudy flowers sh...

 Who knew there's a poem for all of us who have birthdays this month? APRIL BIRTHDAY When your birthday brings the world under your wind...

Unfortunately the snowdrops in this picture aren't in my garden. It's four years since blog reader Jan brought me a bag of snowdrops...

   A January Painting                                                                                                                       ...

The Oxen Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. 'Now they are all on their knees,' An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers...

 OCTOBER I'm not sure where September went but it's gone.  October was originally the eighth month of the Roman calendar. The Anglo ...

Firstly must say thank you to everyone for comments about village names yesterday and apologies for not replying and also for not commenting...

June - my favourite month of the year, meteorologically the start of summer (or  wait to the 21st for the astronomical start) It is thought ...

 In the Roman calendar March, or Martius, was the first month of the new year. The month was named after Mars, the god of war and the guardi...

A February page from The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden The Anglo-Saxons called February 'Solmonarth' which means...

 It was really good yesterday to have so many comments - I loved them all. Special thank you and "hello" to people who'd not c...

  A November page from The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden     If there's ice in November to bear a duck The rest of ...

 I unpinned my corn dolly from the top corner of the bookshelves when they were emptied ready for moving when the floor was being done and b...

  The 1st of the month.... I'm a day late............. marks the start of meteorological autumn, astronomically Autumn doesn't begin...