Here’s a selection of the latest ‘Trish Takes Five’ weekly columns I write for the Lincolnshire Free Press. Lots of random topics as usual. It’s great to have the freedom to write on any...
Happy Anniversary Trish Takes Five

Five years ago I started writing my regular weekly column, Trish Takes Five, in the Lincolnshire Free Press. I suppose I should get myself a gift for my 5th anniversary. If it was a...
Celebrating four years of Trish Takes Five

I began writing for my local paper, the Lincolnshire Free Press, in February 2014 and in the four years since then I’ve scribbled 500 words every week in my column, Trish Takes Five. It...
Veggies, sports day, Cluedo and Wales

Time for another round-up of my latest column pieces for the Lincolnshire Free Press. Vegetable patch is full of surprises You might remember I wrote about our new raised bed in the garden and...
Can you spot the Easter Bunny?

He’s hiding behind that tree… One of the many sculptures spotted at Burghley House, near Stamford in Lincolnshire, which we visited on a glorious Good Friday. I’ll do a separate post about the gardens in...
Christmas columns and a stonking good cheese

Christmas Eve and it’s raining and windy – how very annoying of the weather not to be bright and dry and a bit chilly. The boys are both out – Rory is at his...
A summer together

I don’t know why I’m sitting inside typing. It’s a lovely day out there and I really should be making the most of it: at the very least I should have some washing on...
Six of one and half a dozen of the other

It seems ages since I’ve updated my blog. I still want to write more about our trip to Helsinki but while I’m working on those posts, thought I’d share my column pieces with you....