Fil Campbell & Tom McFarland

This is the last week that Kate is hosting this challenge after 5 years of coming up with prompts.  It has been fun Kate, thank you so much for all the…

 Joining in with Kates's weekly photo scavenger hunt today.   And the prompt is

Sunset/Sunrise

I'm afraid I don't often see sunrise - not after the end of January anyway -  so only evening pics for this prompt.  

We get an…

Happy St Patrick's Day to you all.   

 Joining in with Kates's weekly photo scavenger hunt today.   And the prompt is

Look up / Look down

Did you see the snow moon at the start of the month - wasn't it amazing?  (no decent photos I'm afraid)

I've…

So after all the practice and stress of learning to lip synch, figuring out clothes and make up, finalising scripts, finishing writing a song and getting it recorded etc etc etc filming day arrived.

It was interesting filming in lockdown,…

Can you believe it's a full year since lockdown began.  I remember reading avidly accounts from China where people were relating how they coped with 7 weeks lockdown and I remember thinking, how will we do that.   Then it was…

 Joining in with Kates's weekly photo scavenger hunt today.   And the prompt is

Signs of Spring

We had a couple of glorious days last weekend and got lots of pruning done - the rhodedendron finally got its comeuppance, and it's…

I always thought this was a day just for school kids to get dressed up but it's given me a chance to do another…

Happy Birthday Kezzie.

I've had such fun dressing up as a character from Doctor Who for my blogging friend Kezzie's 40th fancy dress birthday party.   We're sci fi nerds in this house, and Tom particularly loves Doctor Who.  So…

It's taken me nearly 12 months of this lockdown to start feeling rested enough to miss our old life.   I'm not complaining - we live in a beautiful place and don't want for anything and are getting enough work online…

I've been very lax about keeping up with my record of books read so here goes to try and catch up.   I'm now up to 49 countries - you can read the (almost) whole list here.  

Joining in with Kate and friends at  I Live I Love I Am Me  for this week's Scavenger Hunt and the word is 

Unexpected.  

I had to scratch my head for this one for a while and came up…

Joining in with Kate at I Live I Love I Craft for the now weekly photo scavenger hunt - as someone said it's good to have prompts to make us think outside the norm.   

This weeks prompt is Begins With…

 We're really missing being out on the road seeing people and doing what we do best.  

This time two years ago we were in Denmark for a 10 day trip staying with a dear friend where we did a series…

We were due to be packing the car today to head to Scotland for our first tour of the year.   The weather's awful so I"m quite glad we're not on a ferry, but sadly I think there'll be no tours…

Here is a short video poem…

I've just had the most wonderful Weekend at a Conference for community singing leaders - all done on Zoom - for 215 delegates!!  

I am in awe of the technology and the wonderful organising skills of the team behind the…

Photo Scavenger Hunt January 2021 

Good frosty morning to you - the sun is shining and we're in a wintry wonderland, but no snow yet and it's starting to warm up.  

So I'm joining in today with Kate's Scavenger Hunt…

Nollaig na mBan - Women's Christmas or Little Christmas - the 6th January was the traditional day for women of the house to be released from all work duties after the 12 days of Yule.  The practice is still kept…

Hello dear friends.   Thank you for all your new year's greetings.   I hope you've had a gentle move into 2021.  

Hello folks

Thank you for the lovely comments on my last post - it's lovely to hear from you all.   I've been following along, occasionally dropping in and reading your blogs but I just haven't had the energy to write.   

 On a lovely day in August we socially distanced at the bottom of the garden with my friends Csilla Toldy and Tommy Sands to make a tv programme based on our show The Emigrant Woman's Tale.   

On the other side…