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By Dianne

“Ye Olde” village houses

We have been going for lots of walks around the local village of Stowupland and the surrounding farmland. We pretty well live in the middle of it all. Stowupland has a mixture of relatively new houses – ones built in the last century. We live quite close to a large area of terraced and detached houses that were…

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By Dianne

Stowupland, Suffolk

We had an uneventful flight to the UK from France. David and Gwen Archer – friends from the Perpignan church we’ve been going to – took us to the Carcassonne Airport. We were flying out on the same flight as their daughter Beth and her boyfriend Alex – so all worked well. We were picked…

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By Dianne

This is it!!!

This post is part of a series called Snap Shots After digging the car out of the snow in Tomich – not easy – Reg and I headed off for Cornwall. Roads were rather difficult but we crossed the border into England just before the M9 closed behind us. We stayed the night in the…

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By Dianne

White Christmas in Tomich!

We’ve had a lovely stay in Tomich, Scotland – snowed in for most of the time. Absolutely beautiful. Lovely days tucked away inside, nipping outside to feed the horses and ducks, and to walk the dogs. The walks have been so stunning – there were times we were brought to tears. But as the snow…

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By Dianne

Back in Scotland

We had lots of icy mornings and frosty days our first week back in Tomich – bitterly cold. Much harder to handle than snow. Very ‘hairy’ walking the dogs – we soon learn’t how to pick those dangerous ice patches and became very proficient at “ice skating” if we took off unexpectedly. We’ve been revisiting…

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