House On The Hill.

"Flower motifs in cross-stitch to work on this velvet-soft pair.  We  left the jumper plain, scattered flowers on the cardigan only, but they would look enchanting on both…" MATERIALS.—Patons Lucelle Fine Ply; 7 (8) half-oz. balls for jumper and 9 (10) half-oz. balls for cardigan; two No. 14 knitting needles; 7 buttons; . 1J yards…

The whole house is fragranced by the bewitching antiseptic fragrance of lilies delivered by a secret admirer or spurned lover. Thinking of you the card says. Ah if only whoever it was could see the humongous spot on your nose: your body still maintaining utter faith in it’s hormone addled teenage self. You feel twitchy….

Enid Blyton Saves the Day! When the big bad world of being a grown up gets too much for me, I retreat under my duvet, with a glass of milk and a biscuit or seven and read Malory Towers or The St Clares series from Enid Blyton, and pretend I am eleven years old, in…

  Golly gumdrops, I don’t know where to start. Thanks to an eagle-eyed BrocanteHome reader I gave my visiting Mum and Dad short shrift last night, shuffling them out of the house without so much as a cup of tea, so eager I was to be sitting in the company of The Time Warp Wives…

"Am disconcerted, at breakfast, to recieve letter from old school friend saying What am I  doing with My Brain these days, and isn’t it a Pity to Let It All Go? Know what she means but am very angry nevertheless, and lose myself thinking out some really telling replies." So begins  "Provincial Daughter"  by  R….