Lighting & Home
Some of the neighbouring houses here have changed hands and a new crop of busy familes have taken over. The gardens have matured over the years and trees, shrubs etc. have altered the landscape. This is now when it is a good idea to […]
I have been fascinated by historic houses for many years. There is one thing though that never escapes me, whether I’m accompanied or not – the lighting in these heritage properties. I have been helping out at a local place that has reently opened up […]
We live in a small township, in fact our houses are the last of the big executive detached style from the early 2000s before the need to downsize became the bye word in house building. The town houses of today are generally much narrower and […]
I had the interesting opportunity of visiting a recently moved into school house conversion – right out in the sticks and the sort of place that would be jumped at on the escaping the rat race kind of tv lifestyle shows. It has huge space, […]
Gosh where did that last year go? It just doesn’t seem possible that only a few short weeks ago I was sat here regaling you all with my tales of the past month and the wonderful displays we had with the neighbourhood lighting themes. There […]
Christmas lights – there being so many different types of them these days, it is utterly bewildering. When we were small, the most exciting thing in our village was the Major at the top of the hill who used to put brightly coloured lights around […]
Getting out there for the annual firework display – that used to be the highlight of my birthday celebratory period. Although born in October, I always had the honour of having a family sized box of fireworks and a belated party as part of our […]
The nights are beginning to get seriously nippy now. Gone is mellow September with all the glorious last weeks of summer time. The sun is often out in the day time now, causing the Indian summer we so long for, but the nights don’t seem […]
The summer holidays are well and truly over – the excitement that comes with the third week of July – school’s out and the holidays are here . . . Families able to travel ever farther afield for their annual two weeks of sea and […]
At least in August there is less likelihood of needing all he lights to be on at the same time – I can’thelp noticing when the autumn weather arrives and families start using the lights more, every light bulb in the house seems to be […]