by Kate Lloyd | May 31, 2020 | Gift Ideas, practicalities, Recent assignments
We are lucky enough to have countryside all around, and I haven’t really valued that enough. We have lived in the same place for 20 years now, and to begin with I was working full time nearby. I tend to throw myself into things full tilt, and so I saved very...
by Kate Lloyd | May 28, 2020 | In lockdown, Travel
One of our favourite conversations as we set off on our ‘permitted outdoor exercise’ walking in the Surrey Hills, is what would you most prefer to be doing that we can’t do at the moment? I have to say that getting a haircut would have been top of...
by Kate Lloyd | May 27, 2020 | In lockdown
I previously wrote a post about the bluetits having made a home in our previously unoccupied bird box. Well they seem to be thriving and apparently busily feeding nestlings judging by the frequency of trips to the fat balls hanging by our kitchen door. Here are a few...
by Kate Lloyd | May 25, 2020 | In lockdown, Travel
I love Italy and go there at least once a year if possible, so this year I am missing the pleasure of that trip and I am grieving for the population suffering so badly from Covid 19. At the same time I’ve been reading a book about Italy during World War 2,...
by Kate Lloyd | May 24, 2020 | In lockdown
We’ve been walking new paths since the start of lockdown as our permitted outdoor exercise. To start with there were few leaves on the trees, and now as the weeks have gone by the countryside looks different with green everywhere. The bluebells have mostly gone,...
