Moments from Suburbia

As the Jimmy Savile affair blunders on relentlessly gathering distress and revelations along the way I can't help but reflect back to th...

He sits in my kitchen (at times like these the 'my' is so important) and drinks tea while Tall Girl shows him her recent art coursew...

We are nearly at half term, it's been a very long term, and I have been working in my new job for nearly 2 months. I am enjoying the wor...

So we brought home a sixteen year old cat with issues.... Here he is stealing food from the pot during a TV dinner - it was risotto. His bac...

I was bringing the 'not so small' Small Sprog home tonight when we stopped at a junction to let some young women cross the road. His...

So Koko the new family cat is settling in, he has his own unique personality and considering he's around one hundred years old in cat ye...

Mum was here. It's always a bit of a lottery when she visits but this took the (dog) biscuit... We were having a conversation, all o...

"Oh Billy!" She always calls me that, and this intonation is an exasperated one, "Think of all the vets bills!" ...

You couldn't fail to want to feed him.

I love the style of William Morris so spending the day at Standen in Sussex meant I was in heaven again, feasting my eyes on many of his ori...

What can I say? I just fell in love with this beautiful garden designed by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson in the 1930's. Hope y...

What a massive ten days it's been! The job I'd been waiting for became vacant and was advertised briefly on the website with a short...

Magpies. A whole family of them. I watch them from the kitchen window, they are playing, at the bottom of the garden, on and under the new...

Such a beautiful boy, The smallness of his little life snuffed out in an instant as the needles' contents infuse slowly into his leg. Go...

This is Archie, my beautiful Burman cat - known rather unkindly as Stinky Cat due to his litter tray habits. Since we rescued him in ...

Tall Girl has just completed her week of work experience. She went to an award winning florists shop in an affluent part of the city, this...

When I moved in here about 15 months ago the garden was pretty much empty apart from weeds/wild flowers - depending on perspective, and a f...

Small Sprog was his usual animated self at the dinner table last Thursday night. "You need to be calm" He said to his sister ...

Delphinium in my garden It was my birthday last Wednesday. I awoke to the sun streaming through the curtains and a familiar warm lump b...

I am a complete sucker for farm animals, so at the country show - seeing as I couldn't smuggle any out - I couldn't resist photog...