After the battering that Tesco's ( oops sorry...the "Supermarket ) got from Hay residents and the quick backtrack by Powys County Council when they realised they couldn't just run roughshod over Hay on wye like they did in Llandindrod Wells ( and yes Tesco's is there and has a detrimental...

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I have just bought a chapel!
Well with my husband ...at auction a run-down Baptist Chapel which we hope to restore to its former glory..complete with pews, graveyard ( but the bathing chamber will remain below stairs!).

I bid at auction...nervously...

the weather has turned nasty again....the weekend , full of reds, browns and orange contrasted so beautifully with the bright blue cloudless skies..but monday swept in cold and grey. I am busy with my monday routine of social networking with my assistant ....twitter capacity having gone up to over 50K...

The busiest 10 days of Hay On Wye 2012 has now passed as the town is left in a kind of post apocalyptic mess of muddy fields, empty portaloos and dirty windswept awnings leftover from the Hay Literary Festival. An air of relief has permeated the streets after what was...

With a new lifestyle label up and running, I've finally bitten the bullet and set up an office. It sounds easy, but it isn't. So many people are increasingly taking the decision to work from home, but it is not without its challenges.

The office needs to be somewhere...

February was extremely mild apart from a few days of intense cold. The financially crippling oil deliveries were less this year as we didn't have to have the heating on 24/7 like last winter or sit in ice cold rooms...Georgian houses look pretty but God, they are draughty!

A few...

The weather in the country is far more interesting for the occupants than in the city as most of the countryside is governed by its nature. Frost on the roads means no school run and a small scattering of snow brings most local schools to closure as the PC society...

The nights are already drawing out slowly and so far this has been a mild but wet winter, with a few snowdrops already peeking up amidst the sodden grass. Christmas passed in a blur of log fires and friends and family and finally, the builders have packed up and gone...

As winter finally arrives with a vengeance, with trees blown down and the River Wye bursting its banks, an army of redwing birds nest in the derelict pigpen in the top muddy field. The new kitten, Lily, is settling in very well... still seems feral, but that only adds to...

Deep in the Black Mountains, November slips by in a blaze of burning colour and vibrant hues of glowing reds.

I attended the November the 5th Bonfire Night at the spooky Baskerville Hall near Hay-On-Wye with my daughter and her school friends...they came second in the guy competition. Einstein...

Two interesting characters have evolved this week - a week filled with intrigue and subterfuge and lots of whispers rattling around the small market town. Both are directly or indirectly linked with the proposed development in Hay-on-Wye - which now appears to also involve ripping up playing fields, tennis courts...

On Thursday night, I attended a packed meeting at Booths Books in the centre of market town Hay-On-Wye on the Welsh borders.

Rumours have been flying for around three years that a major supermarket was coming to Hay. Finally the rumour mill had gathered enough force to confront the local...

Nothing seems to make people more heated then discussing the pros and cons of hunting. Fox hunting is alive and kicking around Hay On Wye - at least four hunts span the immediate area - and in fact fox hunting is happening all over the countryside. Most city people I...

The weather has turned so beautifully autumnal - berry bright trees shimmer in golden light beaming across from the Welsh Black Mountains which smoulder in red and gold opposite our house.

It is 25 degrees, almost too hot for riding, so instead I wait for the heat to dissipate,...