Christmas is most definitely here! There are windows of wonder all over Lewes. For me Christmas arrived at the start of this week, when the Christmas window popped up at 25 Landsdown Place. I wrote a few months back about how I like the way people on that street in Lewes use their windows as […]
Read MoreNow that we have ‘after school’, we have a new tradition (which we’ve happily borrowed from my friend Anna and her daughter). This is the ‘after-school treat‘. Theirs happens on a Friday, ours now happens on a Monday – don’t ask me why, it just feels like we need a boost on a Monday, is […]
Read MoreTwo weeks ago during that cracking storm, we were nestled in a cosy wooden house on wheels. With our children. It was the larger of two handmade shepherd’s huts known as The Rolling Downs. These lie stationary in the wider grounds of Bentley Country Park. Now, I don’t mind telling you that we are not campers. We […]
Read MoreWe have just spent the weekend at The Rolling Downs, a pair of shepherd’s huts right in the grounds of Bentley Country Park. I’ll do a full post about our stay in the next couple of weeks. It was extremely charming, extremely full of ‘my lucky kids have amazing lives’ moments. And it was EXTREMELY […]
Read MoreThe wonderful writer, painter and illustrator Judith Kerr recently turned 90. But you knew that – it was impossible to avoid the celebratory editorial. It was everywhere! A piece by Michel Rosen entitled ‘My Hero Judith Kerr‘ was a goodie. And the pictorial tribute by The Guardian that I posted on the Little Lewes Facebook […]
Read MoreI know it’s entirely unseasonal, if a little unsettling to think about. But if you have children and live in Lewes, you probably know the Landsdowne Place Christmas window. Some kindly person on this street blocks their own precious-at-this-time-of-year light by filling their window with the most fantastical Christmas scene. I happen to have a picture […]
Read MoreWishworks is performing their puppet show The Terror of the Deep at the Railway Land’s Festival of Water this Sunday, 23 June. From what I’ve heard about their shows – and read about this one – it sounds enchanting. In line with the festival’s aquatic theme, the show takes an irreverent look at marine conservation. […]
Read MoreI grew up in the Far East. Each summer we would escape August’s blistering heat, and come home to England. My sister and I lived for things like Sheffield Park and Garden’s play trail. You couldn’t be anywhere else in a wood like this. It is quintessentially English. If you’ve read my post about Groombridge Place, you’ll […]
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