Hill Top house and the Beatrix Potter Gallery National Trust Team

We're looking back to the 1940's to when Hill Top first opened to visitors: Seventy years ago on July 7 th , Hill Top opened...

I've written before about my dislike of winter and the wet and gloomy days it brings, but I'm delighted to say that the clocks have...

It was hard to miss the news coverage of the fire at Clandon in April, last year. It was a shocking event that was particularly poignant ...

Firstly I feel I must apologize for my absence from the blog this summer, a combination of lots to do and a touch of writers block and sudde...

Beatrix and I have something rather special in common    - it’s both of our birthdays this month! By the time that this post goes up on th...

Thinking about how to begin this month's post I realised that Beatrix and I have a few different things in common – a rather snappy dre...

Beatrix Potter didn't waste time wandering round a supermarket agonizing over the red labels for saturated fat and sugar on everything s...

Hi there! It seems an awful long time since my last post, what’s it been? 6 weeks (ish)? In my last update I had been giving it the big t...