Easy Jubilee EBook, Published 24th May

Monday, May 14th, 2012

Cherry cover

Good Morning! I hope you all had a really great weekend and are feeling refreshed and ready to go. I’m able to tell you about a project very dear to my heart today. My first EBook. Easy Jubilee, published next Thursday, 24th May, will be available to download from all major online retailers. Amazon, iBookstore, [...]

Moving In

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Moving In - 1

We’re all moved in. It took a whole week, I kid you not. We moved ourselves without the aid of removal men. Just us and a van. Well a few vans if I’m honest. And a lot of help if I’m even more honest. And a tow truck complete with winch to hoist Robert out [...]

Moving With JOY

Monday, April 16th, 2012

Moving with JOY - 1

They say that moving house can be one of the most stressful things to do. Which is why after moving 3 times in the last 3 years we are hoping to stay put for a while and after the the year my family & I have had with illness, I really wanted to keep the [...]

John Lewis and I

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

John Lewis and I - 9

John Lewis and I go way back. Our wedding list was held there, we bought a lot of the furniture and appliances for our first house from there. We buy Christmas presents from there, beauty products from there, stationery, food, cooking and baking equipment. I think I may have a little bit of John Lewis [...]

Potting Up

Monday, March 12th, 2012

Potting Up - 1

My poor garden. The minute Spring hits and it bursts in to life again I have to put everything in to pots and move them to a new home.As you can see the moving process has started in earnest. Over the weekend we were all out in the garden for a bit in the afternoon. [...]

Would You Like to See My New Back Garden

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

Back Garden Feb 2012

If you don’t follow me on Facebook or Twitter (links below) you’ll not know that yesterday our mortgage was approved by the bank. After spending TWO MONTHS making up their minds (bit of a backlog apparently, although that didn’t help our state of mind while waiting) Robert called me from work yesterday to say they [...]

Knit Relief Auction with Teenage Granny

Monday, March 5th, 2012

skfc2

Let me introduce you to a friend of mine, Scarlett. Scarlett aka Teenage Granny is someone you should know and if you don’t yet know her I am going to introduce you to her today. This is how I would describe Scarlett. If you have a daughter you would want her to grow up like [...]

Our Journey Home

Monday, February 20th, 2012

Cherry Asleep On Aga - Cherry Menlove

I literally don’t know where to begin with this post. It’s all been so eventful and full of twists and turns, dreams that were shattered and other ones that came to life in the disappointment. OK, deep breath……. In May of 2009 Robert and I rented an amazing house. It was very old and traditional [...]

The Edit

Friday, February 10th, 2012

The Edit - 1

The chapters of my book are currently going through the editing process. It is a process that I am learning a lot about as I know/knew nothing. I’m learning terms, language,  publishing acronyms, more about the English language and I’m learning that blogging is very fluid but writing a book is much more structured. You [...]

Life Outdoors

Monday, February 6th, 2012

Life Outdoors - 1

I grew up on a street, a suburban street, in a house with a garden. When it snowed all the kids on our street would get their sledges out and sledge down the hill we lived on. It wasn’t a steep hill but just steep enough to pick up some speed and steep enough for [...]