The Kittywitch Diaries

'When I was young...' is a classic opening line for us oldies but I shall carry on regardless. When I was young, women were old at 40....

Granny never knew until recently that those little spherical, corky growths on Oak trees that we know as oak 'apples', formed in response...

Nowadays we are as much concerned with the nourishment of our bodies as with our minds whereas Parson James Woodforde presumably did all...

I was surprised some years ago when interviewing an old chap, Joseph Lloyd Royal, for a book, when he said his sister-in-law had been an...

My late brother-in-law was a merchant seaman and like many sailors of his times, sported a crop of blurry tattoos on his forearms. His...

When Granny lived at Surlingham beside the River Yare, there had been a big problem with coypu across the county's waterways and broads....

I have a 'thing' about hedges and bemoaned the fact that when we moved here twenty-five years ago, the field margins were very bare. Many...

There are times in this beautiful spot in Norfolk, on top of our hill when the cloud formations are quite breathtaking. They vary...

Every week my brother passes on to me his glossy Sunday magazine. I refuse to buy week-end newspapers, simply because of the amount of...

We have been roasting here in the daytime for nearly two months. No rain. Hard blue skies with virtually no clouds. At night we have sat...

I was sitting in the cool under-croft of the Louis Marchesipub in Norwich one evening, when I set to wondering about the man whose...

love early Summer in the garden. Who doesn't? The sudden rush of growth after Spring is hard to keep up with and it's easy to forget the...

Well. Would you know it? Granny's got green eyes, the rarest colour on the planet apparently and often associated with witches. Ooh now,...

Standing in my kitchen one day when I lived in Sprowston on the outskirts of Norwich, I became aware of a squawking noise in the house,...

I do love a game of bowls. Indoor bowls. Short-mat bowls to be precise. Short-mat bowls has little of the high-tech, razzmatazz of...

I never, ever read in bed until about 18 months ago when I remembered an old friend saying that she enjoyed snuggling down and reading...

Miscellaneous adj: Mixed. Varied. Containing many different kinds. What a splendid word miscellaneous is! Although it's fairly long and...

Hubby and I have just returned from the city where we were lucky enough to come upon a ceilidh band. The venue was a very large church...

I I've always collected hag-stones and have many hanging round the garden perimeters as well as an especially prized garland gracing a...

A few years ago, when we were still working, Hubby and I used to take our regular walks after we returned home and frequently after dark....