• Newbury Show The major agricultural event each September in my local town of Newbury - take a look at this page for a flavour of the farming community still present here.
• Highclere Castle my next door neighbours!
• Highclere, North Hampshiremy local village webpages

• Journaling Supplies

  - The nuts and blots of keeping a journal (OK - I know it should be bolts - but this is tres freudian, dontcha think??)
  • The Rag and Bone Bindery Blank Journals to die for. The bindery is situated in providence, Rhode Island (USA) and is run by Jason Thompson, author of the wonderfully inspiring How To Make Journals by Hand . These top of the line Journals evoke paens of praise from anyone that has used one (No - I haven't myself, but I'm about to acquire one and they LOOK sumptuous on the web page). Scrumptious paper to write on and wonderful, handmade paper bindings
  • Weekend in Florence A small company from Florence, Italy, selling hand made notebooks with interesting covers, using both pressed flowers and traditional Florentine paper.

• Illustrated Journals

  • Richard Bell's Nature Diary- Wild life artist and online friend Richard Bell's daily nature Diary, set in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales and on his intermittent travels around England. This is a delightful diary and an excellent encouragement to anyone wanting to keep a nature journal, either on line or in hand written book form.
  • ArtistsJournals maillist - as the title suggests, this is a very active maillist, packed full of informative ideas for creative journaling and journal embellishment. Membership highly recommended for anyone who likes to take the whole art of visual journaling several stages further.
  • CollageArtists maillist - another hugely creative group of people who take the art of surface decoration to new heights! .

• The Benaki Museum A wonderful collection of folk costume situated in Athens
• Folk costume A huge study resource of many different links for research into folk costume - part of a bigger site dedicated to all sorts of Dress and costume research
• The Shareware Textile Project Sharon Boggan in Australia is investigeting the relationship between textile studies and the internet - an interesting site

Some sites which I find particularly interesting or useful, with no particular reason for being here other than that....I find them particularly interesting or useful!

• The Dollar Stretcher, embodies the philosophy of frugal living. This doesn't, however, mean joyless living - the content of this site gives hundreds of ideas for saving money and still enjoying life to the full - in fact, enjoying it more, I think, with the resources that you are able to save. I subscribe also to their weekly newsletter - there's always at least one good idea there - try it for a limited period to see if you agree.
• The Storybook Home A delightful site - this link takes you to an interior tour of a charming house, but I believe that the site owners also publish a magazine encapsulating their philosophy of "art in life" - take a look.......
• Glynn Thomas Etchings - Just delicious etchings, illustrating some of the lovely villages and seaports in England. A rich collection of Italian Scenes as well......
• The Time Team A hugely popular programme series on British TV, probably more responsible than anyone for the tremendous upsurge in interest in history and Archaeology over the last ten years. For those who do not know it, a team of archaeologists visit a number of sites each year and investigate them as much as they are able in three days. The digs are filmed, with Everyman/anchor man Tony Robinson (Baldrick from Blackadder) rushing about from trench to trench and asking the questions that the general public would be likely to pose if we were there. It makes wonderful television, the mix of academic information and rescue archaeology excitement is perfect. This is a comprehensive site, giving details of most of the digs over the last ten years and loads of ancillary information. Well worth a visit - allow yourself a long time for browsing!
• Resurgence Magazine Describing itself as "An international forum for ecological and spiritual thinking", I've read this magazine for nearly 20 years now. Founded by ex Jain monk Satish Kumar, it reflects the principles of E F Schumacher's "Small is Beautiful" philosophy and has become one of the flagship publications for the Green movement.
  I look forward to reading it for it's less strident, gentler approach to living lightly upon the earth that seems to be the ethos of most of it's articles - not that it is afraid to raise controversial topcs, far from it. They are just debated in a reasoned and courteous manner. I like it's style.
  The bimonthly publication always holds much food for thought and nourishment for the Spirit. Do browse through the online articles and consider a subscrition for yourself (no affiliation!)
• Godecookery.com A huge resource of medieval websites.
• Cynscribe.com Another enormous list of websites, this time relating more to Calligraphy resources, including dozens of free font sites
• Edilan Facsimile Books An interesting look at how facsimiles of some of the world's most exquisite medieval manuscripts are made. take a look at the rest of the site too.......