Wintry Woodstock

Regular readers will know that we’re invited back to Woodstock a couple of times each year, with February reserved for our longer stay. It’s a cycle we’ve come…

Dodging Bullets

Dodging bullets; we’ll come back to that later… 2026 is shaping up to be another wonderfully busy year for us. Not only are we sitting all over the…

Wallop

We finished mid-December with our grand tour of The Wallops — a trio of villages that sound like they belong in a children’s book or a sitcom about…

Standing with Giants

So what could possibly top the Headington Shark? Well as it happens and as a birthday treat for Annette we did get the opportunity to take a trip…

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Nettie, 21 again, cough cough! This October sees us visiting friends old & new. Our visit to Sparkford was simply to see our good friends there…

Pizza & Pasta

The first half of September was spent in sunny Italy which is the one place in the world where you would expect to find excellent Pizza & Pasta,…