I had the good fortune to be staying down in the south with some good pals – they are great ones for going out and about at weekends, seeking out the unusual. This could include properties to look round, antique…

I had the good fortune to be staying down in the south with some good pals – they are great ones for going out and about at weekends, seeking out the unusual. This could include properties to look round, antique…
I have thoroughly enjoyed watching the programme by a certain ex mp, who has now become a reknowned travel writer and racontour. His programmes are primarily to promote rail travel and having almost exhausted the entire uk rail network, using…
When you’re setting up a new home, after your first starter property and now well into making it a proper home, your style tends to change and a different set of values sets in. I can think here of a…
I have a really beautiful big book published last year by the major heritage property charity. I was visiting one of their places up in the peak district and as is my want, I was happily mooching about in the…
Some of the furniture designs today do look rather plain and clumpy. I have been checking out sideboards and dining sets, with a view to a change round. The tables on offer all seem to be various shades of oak…
I recently had the joy of taking an aged relative off for a birthday weekend in a swish hotel in town. Her family contributed to this enterprise and as I am the most mobile and flexible with time, I offered…
I recently returned from a helter skelter kind of exciting holiday down in the south west – a cottage break with several family members and a handful of puppy dogs. It was full on for the first half of the…
On a trip to the Peak district a few weeks ago, I was blessed with the opportunity to visit a gorgeous house that stood out from the rest of the village – which being a walkers’ paradise was made up…
I have been watching a particular property near me that went on the open sale market some weeks ago. It’s definitely of the 1920’s era, as it’s in a row of ten or twelve set back off a now very…
Whilst watching a recent episode of a well known antique and collectibles programme, I wondered how many things are still out there being described as ‘found in local car boot’ or had been tossed in a skip. With the rise…