Hello everyone! Apologies for not posting for nearly two weeks, I should have said in my last post that I was going away, staying at my daughter’s in the small and very beautiful town of Lewes, This is a typical
April review – 2021
Hi everyone I’m still doing an end-of-the-month review (a trifle late this month) but as you can see it is no longer called Lockdown Diaries, as it’s now just a roundup of events, happenings, clothes I might have bought that
Lockdown diaries – March 2021
Hi again everyone I wonder whether I’ll be continuing this diary throughout the year or will it come to an end soon? Actually, I’m thinking that I might do one more at the end of April and possibly May, and
Lockdown Diaries – February 2021

Hi everyone Phew, bit of a challenging week last week as I was recovering from tripping and falling hard on my face, oops a daisy as they say. I was fine, albeit a bit shocked so no need to worry,
Lockdown diaries – 31 January 2021 and more about African fashion

Hi everyone Here we are with another month done and dusted. I don’t know about you but I think this month has been one of the worst of this pandemic. We were all so pleased to move on from 2020
Lockdown diaries – December 2020!

Hello everyone Hope you all had a reasonable Christmas. We did but having opted out of a big gathering last year I will never do that again. although as you know it was just as well as Christmas Day 2019
Lockdown diaries – 28th October 2020. What keeps you smiling?

Hi everyone And here we are, almost another month gone from this year. Are you finding that the weeks and months pass quickly? I am, and not sure why but the days do tend to blend in and merge together
(Semi) lockdown diaries – 31 August 2020

It’s the end of the month again so here’s another round-up of thoughts on these unusual times. As you can see from the title of this post, I now see myself as being in a semi-lockdown situation, because I have
Lockdown diaries – 27 July 2020

Hello again and, my word, another month has passed. Do you find the days going by quickly? I do. I have to say most of the time I’m busy with projects and the blog, and happy to be in contact
Lockdown diaries – 29 June 2020

Hi everyone I wonder how long I’ll be doing a post at the end of the month on what is now my version of lockdown? Maybe for some time. We’re going to restart visiting family again, I hasten to add,
