A Little Bit of British from Across The Pond

A Brit girl living in Penn's Woods, with an Off-Grid Cottage in the North Country. For lovers of gardening, books, crochet, teatime, travel, most of all kindred spirits.

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Monday, July 6, 2009

High Tea London

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High Tea taken to the heights of London.
Thursday, July 2, 2009

Sound of Music,Central Station Antwerp. This is Great

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Monday, June 29, 2009

London 1903

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After I found the movie of Barcelona I thought there should be some of London. I remember my grandma talking about the omnibuses. Made over...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

Lyons Tea Shops

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Lyons Tea Shops were always part of our visit to London as a child. We went up to London every month, from when I was three to about ten....

Teacup and Teapot Candlesticks

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These do it yourself teacup and teapot candle sticks I came across at the hospital yard sale. I like them, they're a little quirky ...

Barcelona 1908

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I love this old movie of Barcelona 1908, especially having visited there last year . I'm sure the opening part is filmed along the Ramb...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Two Sisters One Skye

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This is the cottage we will be staying in. A very typical style for the Isle of Skye. Between now and the time I leave I will be doing l...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Pesto Perpetuo

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Pesto Perpetuo I bought this pesto plant at a nursery. They must have had well over ten different varieties of basil, should have taken pho...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

I Did It At Last !!!

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It's been weighing on my mind, that I must, truly must book my flight to the UK. It's not like me to procrastinate on something lik...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Paul McCartney and Wings

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Classic performance of "Jet" 1973 Music I find is so closely associated with place and time. The places and time I associate with...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

My local IKEA

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I don't go to IKEA too often, although they're not that far from me. They had some nice outside lamps for candles this year, in bo...
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Droplets On The Vine

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The other day my attention was drawn to the beauty of rain droplets on every little point of my grape vines leaves. Each leaf was bedecked ...
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Friday, June 19, 2009

GM 1958

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1958 was GM's 50th Anniversary and 2008 in wake of their demise was their 100th Anniversary.

1956 Bell Telephone For the Kitchen

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1956 Bell System- Once Upon A Honeymoon Musical made to promote color telephones in the modern home. Thanks to TV Days.

Packaging and Presentation on the Clearance Counter

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Doesn't this image just conjure up bungalows, verandas and tea plantations. To be truthful when I drink tea I'm into caffeine, bu...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Tea and Toast on the Titian

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It seems that even the weather has gone into a depression here. Rain and cloudy every day. We are two inches above our regular rainfall fo...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Persephone Books 10th Anniversary

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Persephone books is celebrating their 10th Anniversary with an open house and goodies on Thursday, wish I could attend. On the P ersephone ...

Gold Japanese Blossom Design China

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When out with my friend C. I saw these pieces, and we both just loved the simplicity of the pattern, from Japan. C. said it might have been...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Jenkins Arboretum

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These are a few photos my husband took last month, when we went with some friends to the Jenkins Arboretum. The azaleas were at their best....
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Friday, June 12, 2009

Little Boy Lost, by Marghanita Laski, A Book Review

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--> I finished this book well over a week ago, so If I don't write a review of this book soon I will loose the flavour o...
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