Category Weekly News

Dear friends, Tomorrow will be the last service of Rev Liz as our parish vicar. If you can, please join her (details in notes attached). Also tomorrow, 4 October, is the saint’s day of Francis of Assisi, patron saint of,…

Dear friends, It is that time of year when either all spiders build webs or maybe we just see the webs better because of the moisture in the air. The ones that do not weave their traps all seem to…

Dear friends, After passing the signs for Leeds Castle over 300 times in the last 32 years on our journeys to and from the continent, we finally made it to the actual site. The house and gardens are delightful and…

Dear friends, Earlier this week I spotted this red kite over our house. At first glance the silhouette was normal but close inspection shows the ragged appearance of this majestic bird. It’s only recently that I learned that all birds…

Dear friends, Sun flowers always cheer me up no end and with the rain beating down (at last!) they are a very welcome sight. Being from a wider family of florists, I used to have cut flowers in the house…

Dear friends, The Capel Show has been and gone. Hundreds of volunteer hours have gone into preparing, setting up, running and clearing up. Without all the volunteers there would not be a show and there would be no money raised…

Dear friends, I am always uncomfortable writing about events in the future as if they have already happened, so I won’t. As I write, the Capel show is still a couple of days away and preparations are in full swing.…

Dear friends, I am doing all I can to keep the house cool in preparation for the next (fifth?) heatwave this summer. We are by now dab hands at managing the windows and curtains to stay cool: all closed during…

Dear friends, For many weeks now I have had several windows open overnight to cool the house. This has been an open invitation for a variety of creatures great and small (including a mouse and the cricket in the picture)…