I had a secret commission to fulfil last week. A couple of months ago, my Granddaughter asked if she could special request a yellow Nana...

  September, mists and mellow fruitfulness For me, September is a season not only of mists and mellow fruitfulness, it is also the season in...

PEGGY Earlier this year, I told you about my Grandmother's childhood doll Peggy, a 1920's Armand Marseille doll, manufactured in Ger...

  PEGGY I first met my Grandmother's childhood doll Peggy many years ago. She was carefully wrapped in a soft white cloth and lived in a...

  THIRTY NINE YEARS.. I was just twenty years old when my baby girl was first placed in my arms, not much more than a girl myself. Thirty ni...

PATTI PITTA PAT AND CHATTY CATHY It was my birthday a few days ago, a strange one under the current restrictions, but quite fun nevertheless...

I created Rosie to celebrate my granddaughter's 2nd birthday back in May ... which of course, happened during Lockdown. Sadly, under L...

Throughout our Lockdown days I have found the simplest things in life have given me the greatest pleasure ... long walks with my dogs, cr...

I'm still bumblin' along here at All Bear. Making teddy bears is who I am and as I really don't know how to be anyone else, ev...

April has been such a beautiful month, with the exception of a few chillly days. The weather this month would have been perfect for...

What a weekend!  Storm Dennis blew in and as the wind howled and rain crashed, a precious baby girl, my third Great Niece, made her wa...

It was my 57th birthday yesterday and despite it being a work day, my special people still made the time to remind me, our lives are inter...

When the wind howls, days are dark and the garden is like a muddy swamp, the best thing to do is snuggle on the sofa to share a good book ...

2020 squelched off to a boggy start when my family and I met in Mote Park for our first welly walk of the year, on a rather gloomy New Ye...

It's another New Year's Eve with our year almost at an end and to be honest, I'm all for a quiet night in with the telly tonig...

Fireworks are a strange entity for me ... I hate how they frighten my dogs, but since a little girl, have always enjoyed celebrating Guy F...

On Sunday afternoon, we set off in the car, welly booted and with cameras primed, in preparation for our autumnal deer spotting outing at ...

Wishing my amazing little dippy dinosaur explorer Grandson, a very happy 5th birthday today ... The poor lad had to go to school o...

I love early Autumn walks, so popped the dogs into my car yesterday morning and headed over to the Woodland Trust for a wander in the Autu...