24 property viewings, 17 months of renting, 5 house offers, 4 surveys, 2 long-awaited glasses of champagne* *Yes, I know these are wine glasses; we hadn't unpacked the champagne ones, LOL.

24 property viewings, 17 months of renting, 5 house offers, 4 surveys, 2 long-awaited glasses of champagne* *Yes, I know these are wine glasses; we hadn't unpacked the champagne ones, LOL.
Last autumn, I told you all about our new dream house in Worcester, minus one minor detail: we didn't actually own it. I suppose I didn't mention it because I thought it would only be a matter of time before we did and because I didn't want to bore you. We had arranged to rent …
If I had to pick a favourite harbinger of spring I think it would have to be the flowers of Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna). I spotted my first one in bud on the shady banks of the Laugherne Brook during the New Year Plant Hunt but I had to wait until 8th February to see …
At the end of September 2021, Mr Rixon and I, our two girls and our two cats finally moved out of London. Not to Devon, as long-planned and dreamed, but to Worcester in the Midlands instead. Back in June, we were in the process of purchasing a house in a pretty little village in Mid …