Slow Lane Life
One woman with several cats and two dogs takes the plunge and relocates to rural life in Somerset.
Exmoorjane
Funny, heartrending, sane as can be and quite up the wall. There is no one like Jane.
Bluestocking mum
Fun, feisty and strong in the face of whatever life throws at her, BSM is inspirational.
The Blackden Trust
Home of the writer, Alan Garner, Blackden is now part of charitable trust to preserve this amazing place. In this blog Alan's wife, Griselda, talks about how the Old Medicine House, a medieval timber framed building, was taken down and rebuilt on the Blackden site.
Spring Cottage
Life in the Quantock hills. I always loved the name and never knew where they were!
Purple Podded Peas
An artist and gardener blogs from far away (from me) East Anglia.
Broken Biro
Writer, librarian, wit.
Inky Fool
Meanings and derivations of words for those, like me, of a nerdish disposition.
Smitonius and Sonata
A mother and daughter blog from London and Amsterdam
Whos the Mummy?
Funny, fast, forthright, fantastic.
Friko's world
Intelligent, thought provoking, occasionally caustic, never dull.
Wild Somerset Child
Wide ranging and thoughtful musings on art, craft, travel and the world.
Pipany
If you want a calm sweetness without saccharine, here it is.
Round the water trough
Animals, history, rural life. Hannah is a historian with an eye for the memorable detail.
Rosemary
Where Five Valleys Meet
Preseli Mags
Writing, running, gardening, cooking and daydreaming in the Preseli hills.
Chris Stovell
A writer's blog from West Wales with fabulous paintings by her artist husband
Corner Cupboard
The strapline says "a rag bag of odds and ends" but this is a special bag, written with intelligence and style.
It's a stock item
A family phrase which refers to Ian's fabulously stocked workshop. This is his new, soon to be fabulously stocked, blog.
Afonwen Craft Centre
This place is just at the bottom of our hill - amazing stock, lovely owners, vintage and antique stuff and great cake!
Homewood Bound
This is just a lovely business run by the nicest people. When the reality of country life feels hard, a visit here soothes the soul.
Views from the bike shed
Good writing, musings on life, fatherhood and, very occasionally, bikes.
Wild places
An Irish woman living in Wales blogs about her passion for all the wild places
Asia Vu
Expatriate life in Korea, funny and true.
Pondside
A Canadian blog from British Columbia, wise and kind.
Temptation of Words
A Canadian writer, living in France, married to a Belgian, eloquent and thoughtful.
Millefeuilles
An eye for the small and beautiful and unusual from an Englishwoman living and working in France
Madelief
Fabulous photos and thoughtful commentary from the Netherlands
Iron and Fire
An artist blacksmith's journal from Portland, Oregon in the US
Expatmum
An English woman living in Chicago, fast, thoughtful and funny.
Random Ruminations
Beautiful pictures, beautifully described.
Desideratum
Beautiful photographs and writing from Nova Scotia
Catching the magic
An expatriate mum in New Zealand sharing the delights and pain of bringing up a family so far from home
Materfamilias
An academic living, running, gardening and writing in a West Coast Canadian island.
Farming in Australia
You can't get much further away from North Wales than the Australian outback but that is the wonder of blogging!
Rusty Duck
Building a life in Devon, sharing the ups and downs and making me laugh.
Useful or beautiful
Lovely name, lovely blog.
Tim's blog
Images, local history, political musing and Everton football club.
Sarah Laurence
A writer living and blogging in Maine
Blue Borage
Small holding life and working with wood
Building a life in Devon, sharing the ups and downs and making me laugh.
Useful or beautiful
Lovely name, lovely blog.
Tim's blog
Images, local history, political musing and Everton football club.
Sarah Laurence
A writer living and blogging in Maine
Blue Borage
Small holding life and working with wood
