December 2025

Living on the flat Lincolnshire coastal marsh, the sunrise, its timing and position is an ever-present part of my journey through each year. Almost as far as it can be from its summer place, the sunrise now it fills my kitchen window with its wild pink brilliance. The Pagan feast of Yule, celebrating the turning wheel of the year, as we move from darkness to light, sits easily alongside Christmas, both appearing in the strange darkness of December; a time full of mystery and merrymaking.

I have sold more Christmas cards than ever this year, but I have re-stocked the website so there is still a good selection to choose from. Most Christmas things will not now be re-stocked when they are gone.

I wish you a very happy Advent and a joyful Christmas.

November 2025

November has dawned bright and breezy here.  We are close to the Donna Nook Nature Reserve, a six mile coastal strip which in November and December hosts a colony of seals. They come ashore to give birth to their fluffy white pups, which can be seen clearly from the viewing path. We hear their plaintive cries on cold mornings when sound travels farther; a reminder, along with teatime sunsets, and well-stocked log baskets, that we are coming towards Christmas and the close of the year.

Always trying to keep ahead of the game, I am now stitching for Spring! So rabbits and lambs and flowers are in my sewing box at the moment, as the Christmas stock is now completed.  I am adding more stock to the Christmas shop and other departments every few days, but Christmas stock is limited.

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October 2025

The new month has arrived with the first foggy morning, and rain, the first for ages. So everything is very wet and chilly all of a sudden. The birds seem hungrier now too, and my tame robin is back coming to my hand for his ‘buggy nibbles’ when I venture across the yard to unbolt the gate first thing each morning. This year has been ‘a special year’ for the quince tree, which usually only manages a few small fruits, but once every few years there is the surprise of a bumper crop of large aromatic quinces scenting the whole garden as they turn a deep golden yellow in October. Time for more jelly-making, it lasts for years on a cool shelf.

New cards for Christmas this year: ‘Evergreen Christmas’ and ‘Winter Patchwork’ which you will find near the top of the Christmas Shop – tab here on the Home Page.

Cards are limited as I make every one myself, so shop early to avoid disappointment’ as they say!