Scraps and Threadtales

The past few days the weather has been "brilliant" - one of my favorite colloquialisms! The village next to us has a large asparag...

Today was supposed to be a quiet day but instead I had a bit of an adventure. One of my neighbors had planned to go on a hill walk with some...

Only have a few minutes to post today. Yesterday we walked up the hill in back of our village and this time I remembered my camera. There we...

Don't you just hate it when your memory fails you?! I was cruising through the blogs the other day and saw where a quilter was blending ...

This week I've been glued to the television and I'm hating it! I find myself talking loudly to the commentators...the only effect be...

Yesterday I went up to the auction house to check out some quilts and a sampler they had listed in their website. Two of the quilters from t...

We could not have asked for better weather than we had this past Easter weekend. We did lots of driving around the local villages and took M...

My eyes right now are wonky at best which makes me crazy. A few more days and I should be able to safely operate a rotary cutter and a comp...

Well DH is at St. Andrews today on a golf outing with his buddies. He called last night all excited last night - his foursome won the draw a...

For some reason my other blog is not cooperating at all...I've lost posts midway through and must have to ask for my password ever other...

Today I am feeling the effects of all the turmoil of the past few days. Old MS syptoms are rearing their ugly head - lost partial sight whil...

I have a love hate relationship with Barcelona. It is a beautiful city with so many textures that I am constantly in awe. The problem is whi...

I haven't been posting as regularly as I should I know. Just having problems getting organized I guess. Weather has been crazy...hail, ...

Now this is a MEME I had fun with! I found it on Clare's blog (Dordogne Quilter.) I love to read and will read just about anything from ...

My DH and I participated in our first organized country walk Saturday. It was beautiful...lots of sheep, lambs, horses, and dogs. The photo ...

The sun has finally come out here in the cotswolds . My cats have been sleeping on the windowsills for the past two days just soaking it all...

I got caught up taking a half a dozen of these "What if..." surveys. I found out I am not scarey, I am more dog than cat, and that...

I went to my first antique auction here in the UK yesterday. It was a lot of fun. The weak dollar made me a little timid and though I bid of...

I took some time out this week to be a tourist. I visited Blenheim Palace with a British American Group. The palace was built inthe early 1...

I've been up since 0530 this morning so DH and I could watch the Oscars (taped) before he went to work or listened to the news (thus spo...