With the leaves turning brown and the days shortening, you definitely get a sense that autumn has arrived. And yesterday, on a dry, mellow afternoon, we took a wander around the Autumn Fair. It seemed like a lovely way to mark the start of this gorgeous season and to embrace all things autumnal. Set in…
I'm an autumn girl at heart. I love autumn and all that this season brings. I've been looking forward to it more than normal this year. Perhaps it was the intense heat of June and July, perhaps it was the relentless rain in August, but already in September, I feel more at ease, happier in…
It feels of late like we are in those in between days. Summer is ending and autumn is yet to get underway. We've seen a late flurry of sunshine here and it's given some flowers a final flourish. Others, though, have already gone over, their seed heads turning mellow and golden. Children are already starting…
It has felt like summer has eluded us for the last month or so. It's hard to believe there was a hosepipe ban here just a short time ago, when August has brought so much unrelenting rain. It has been warm, though, and in between the showers, there have been glimpses of an August summer.…
A while back I sowed some 'Love in a Mist' (or Nigella) seeds. They took what seemed for ever to germinate and then, after weeks of seemingly nothing happening, the tiniest green shoots popped up through the soil and from there they started to grow. By the end of July, after weeks of sunny weather, …
Having its roots in the 1600s, Bakkehuset is considered the oldest building in Frederiksberg (a large suburb in Copenhagen). In Danish, bakke means hill and hus means house, so Bakkehuset translates as 'Hill House'. In it's day, in the Danish Golden Age (1800 to 1850), it was the home of Knud Lyne Rahbek , a…
On our recent trip to Copenhagen, a lot of our time was spent wandering around the city's green spaces. Copenhagen is blessed with a number of gardens and parks and these are places we tend to visit more and more when we go on holiday. The Danish word for garden is 'Have' , which naturally…
