Chez Spud

I didn’t think I could love a novel more than I loved The Priory by Dorothy Whipple, which I enthused about here. But then I read Someone at a Distance(also by Dorothy Whipple), and I found I loved it even more. Although its end papers are not quite so pretty as The Priory. No matter. [...]

Unlocks Chez Spud, checks all is well, nothing has been taken, all Secrets safe and sound…? Good, well then let’s continue… Chez Spud is open for business again. Thank you to everyone who emailed and/or commented, you’re all so thoughtful and it meant such a lot to me. My father-in-law’s funeral is over now and [...]

My lovely sister-in-law is goodly making a photo album for our parents-in-law (MrSpud’s parents) for Christmas. She’s collecting photos from the weddings of all three of their children, so kind of her. I’m so glad I’m not in charge since I’ve failed to put even our own wedding photos in an album, even though we [...]

Introducing Eliza Claire aka Liz…wedding, portrait, boudoir and trash the dress photographer extraordinaire. That’s her in the photo above, suffering for her art. That little hand in the top right is her daughter’s; she was sitting on mummy’s back using her camera strap as reins and doing ‘gee up horsey’…waaaah! I asked Liz to write [...]

I’m not sure that my wedding dress is a very sensible addition to the Ten Treasures list, given that I’m unlikely to wear it again (not least because I’ll never fit in it again). But it is very special to me, and symbolises the day I finally dragged MrSpud up the aisle and enslaved him [...]

A few weeks ago MrSpud zoomed over to Spain with Bertie for his brother’s wedding. Alas Diggy had just had an operation and couldn’t fly, so I stayed home with him and lay on the sofa really cracked on with lots of chores while MrSpud went off galavanting. Naturally, as per the internationally approved Mummy [...]