Most readers of this blog will have met Boris (the ginger one) and Arwen. Possibly even in person at Lawn Road or during one of our summer concerts here in the garden in Highgate. Despite the fact that all of their lives had been spent at Lawn Road, they were both very tolerant of the …
Boris the cat
Autumn in Highgate Lane
I hadn’t actually appreciated, when pulling metres of clinging tendrils out with the over grown ivy earlier in the year, that what I was pulling out was Virginia creeper – which would burst into a brief blaze of crimson glory come the dark days of October – as indeed it has. Fortunately, it is incredibly …
The garden
I promised Micki a tour of the new residence soon and, as I am ‘self-banning’ myself from the heath over the Easter weekend, I thought now was the moment. Although I am afraid that for today it is garden only as the house has been temporarily turned into a film studio so that I can …
‘Les Salons’
You may remember that back in June we held a Salon Musicale at Lawn Road with violinist Madeleine Mitchell and her quintet – and lots of good food! Well, you will be glad to hear that it was not just a one off. Indeed we have held two further evenings since then and have two …
Cat napping
I have always been deeply jealous of those who were able to ‘cat-nap’. Just drop of for ten minutes in some unlikely location and wake up refreshed, revived and ready to soldier on with the task in hand. If I do it, I wake up groggy, headachy, grumpy, with a crick in my neck and …