Duncan and Emma's Salt Spring Island Adventure!
Early morning sun pulls dampness from the cool grass, turning last night’s rain into a band of soft white mist, like a blanket covering the earth just before it wakes. The flycatcher calls, “quick three beers, quick three beers” A lone bee circles me, just to see who I am. I hear a bird of…
OK so we haven’t updated this blog for …. err… over 8 years ? But we have just wrested it off Typepad and onto WordPress without losing too much content, and hopefully that will be the inspiration for us to make a few updates. Duncan and Emma’s Salt Spring Island Adventure definitely continues, and over…
I didn’t really make any New Years resolutions, but I did kinda decide to do a bit more exercise, not push myself so hard to get everything done, and to bake bread! I have made bread before but I have always used the bread machine to at least mix the dough if not do the…
Its true – we haven't had a bath for a year and a half now! Luckily for our friends we have had a shower – but since we ripped out the downstairs bathroom to make way for our new kitchen (which is great!) not only have we only had a shower in the downstairs bathroom…
I can't believe that another summer has almost gone. Every year we say that next year we won't be so busy, and every year proves us wrong. Between Cosy Woodpecker Cottage and our various businesses it still seems to be hard to find time to work on the garden and property. Still its probably best…