The Kittywitch Diaries

Myself and Hubby have been lucky enough to enjoy a return visit to the Lake District but my, how the weather varies! We were last here in...

I just came across a page in my notebook that held so many lovely memories of early summer. Hubby and I were holidaying in the Lake...

Our village short-mat bowls team turned out for a match against a City side last night and on a beautiful mellow evening, Hubby and I...

Hurrah! The swifts are back! It's a cry that goes up usually in the first week of May. This year they are a tad late. Maybe this is due...

When I read in our local magazine today the awful news that our local church is threatened with closure, I was really dismayed. Religion...

Some years ago, Granny went to a wedding ceremony held in the little church of St. Julian that sits off King Street in Norwich. It was...

My Auntie Lil used to pencil in her eyebrows I recall. Fine arches of dark brown that complimented her scarlet lips, and permed hair, a...

8th May, 2019 Well, we have had very mixed weather of late but on the odd day when the sun has emerged from its obscuring blanket of grey...

Granny ran out of eggs this morning so decided to walk down to the little farmhouse in the valley behind to see if they had any for sale...

Granny's old mum would have been 107 today if she had lived this long. As it is she was just six months short of her centenary so...

Hubby and I have been leaving our holiday home early each morning for a walk round the valley that to me resembles one of the places I...

We decided today to leave son and daughter-in-law to trek across from Troutbeck to Ambleside with the dog, while hubby, myself and...

​I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;...

What a lovely relaxed day I've had. The only 'specific' jobs being the washing and let's face it, it's hardly much of a chore nowadays is...

Situated in the parish of Repps with Bastwick and within the Broads National Park of Norfolk, sits the medieval bridge of Potter Heigham...

Who doesn't love Forsythia? The sight of its vibrant yellow flowers really makes Spring feel like Summer! It is very commonplace but...

Dead hedges are piles of branches and twigs arranged to form a barrier, a way of creating a useful structure which disposes of...

Granny's first serious encounter with wearing a beret was at school. We had a new headmistress take over our girls' secondary modern and...

One of my most favourite flowers is the Iris. From early clumps of Iris sylvatica that can expand into great swathes of blue....

Obesity strikes at an earlier and earlier age now and over-weight smacks of excess. Here comes that phrase again - 'when I was young', we...