Wendy’s sewing room

When the boys left home, Wendy got a sewing room. Somewhere she could have her machine, her tools, her fabric, and be able to just go in and enjoy her hobby. When Susan and Jason lived with us for a year, Wendy kept the door closed when Rachel was toddling around because of sharp things…

News from The Villa

How do you decide what colour to paint a wall? When we were buying our lovely home, Philip asked us to pick one colour—our base colour—and he would paint all the walls the same. We landed on Repose Grey, a rather lovely shade, which we have used as our base for matching other things. But…

Getting ready for ?

When we adopted JR, there was no internet, no YouTube. I wish there had been. I was really busy travelling in those days and was out of the house a great deal. So poor JR did not get much training and of course the truth of the matter is I didn’t get much training to…