From My Mental Library

Easing back into work after my two-week break was smooth; because it's still the school holidays here in my part of Germany, many of my ...

The weekend after my return from Yorkshire ( Saturday/Sunday, 1st and 2nd of August ) my husband and I spent at my place in Ludwigsburg - un...

Friday (31 July) was spent mostly on trains. My sister-in-law picked us up at the cottage at around 7:30 in the morning and took us to the t...

Littlethorpe is a small village just outside Ripon, across the bypass. A., my sister-in-law, lives there with her husband, an elderly cat an...

On Wednesday (29 July), Sue (our former landlady at the cottage and one of our dear friends in Ripon) took us to Ripon Walled Garden. We had...

An old school friend of my late husband's and his wife, N. and F., came to see us on Tuesday (28 July). They live in Wath-upon-Dearne (S...

Logically, after the house we went out into the grounds of Castle Howard. They are vast, and we knew we were not going to cover every inch a...