Some of you may wonder what on earth I’m doing sitting on the steps of an old gypsy caravan. Well it was a few years ago and Simon and I had decided to do something together at the weekend (for once!).

Each year for the past few years Mum has generously given us each an annual subscription to the National Trust so this is where we went that day - Petworth I believe it was, though I could be wrong.

We didn’t use our membership cards once last year but have vowed to do better this one! Watch this space for developments…

A few of my friends,  Sim, Viv and Raif come to mind, have been happily blogging for years, if not decades. This is my very first effort at creating and posting a blog of my own, so please bear with me if I flounder around a little.

I’m sitting here in our lovely Regency flat in Hove, having finished my online examining for the day, and am gazing out at the sun filtering through the huge leafy trees in Palmeira Square outside our window. The geraniums on our balcony have thrived throughout the summer drought and I look forward to a wee tipple of something cool out there before the sun goes down.

I shall try to post a couple of photos with this wee blog and if I succeed in posting it all off into the ether, I shall be more than a little pleased with myself.

Over and out!