Snippets 'n' Scraps

Regular readers will know I live in a sprawling Victorian rectory designed by Edmund Blacket , architect of Sydney University, St Andrew’s C...

As we watched the boats at anchor in the bay outside Di B’s sewing room window bobbing up and down today, she and I sewed up and down on a...

Most of the time it just sits there in the background, soaking up all the nasty spam and rubbish which would otherwise clutter up my inbox. ...

The valuable items inside our church are secure behind sturdy oak doors, and the Sydney sandstone walls have stood solidly for almost 160 y...

This one’s even easier.  Can you spot the two items missing here? Look a little closer. For generations two handsome carriage lamps have il...

I just spotted another weather widget from my homepage. If “Sydney” actually refers to Sydney, Nova Scotia (and not Sydney, Australia), as...

Take a look at Linda’s blog . She lives in Des Moines, Iowa where she’s snowed in and it’s so cold that even her dog Hogan would rather be h...

Still taking things very quietly here, so nothing very exciting to blog about. However I am… Feeling blessed …to have generous, caring fri...

We love our weekly “Location, Location” and “Relocation, Relocation” on Lifestyle TV (or as they are known in our house, “Kirsty and Phil” )...

Twelfth Night, 6th January. is traditionally associated by Christians with the visit of the Magi, or Wise Men, to the baby Jesus. But did y...

One of the aspects of near-city living I've had to get used to is having the flotsam and jetsum of the neighbourhood abandoned on my st...

So we popped the retro Crock Pot out on the footpath for collection - and in the morning it was gone! But by the afternoon it was back! - mi...

This post could also be labelled "Life's Little Mysteries" because I found this broken and battered purse yesterday when I wa...

How would you feel if you found this flower-studded cross, and the threatening note pinned to it, propped up outside your neighbour's ga...

Yesterday afternoon I discovered a huge bunch of luscious pink lillies hiding in the shrubbery in my front garden bed, as if they had just ...