Far from the Glastonbury madding crowd
If you’re at Glastonbury this year, Maddie wishes you well. But she sends her apologies, something else has come up and she won’t be there.
Buying a home: lists and English advice
Nathalie ponders about buying a home in West Dorset, prices, estate agents, and gets the best British advice from a friend.
Octavia Hill: a film Emma Thompson hasn’t made yet
Maddie Grigg urges wider recognition of the woman whose work with poor people did so much for the development of social housing.
The UK has a housing crisis, so do I; how about you?
The UK has a housing crisis but then so too do I, the difference is, mine is easily solved
Green Shoots
This week, guest blogger Meryl Dunton-Rose talks about a Green way of life Down Under. If we care about our planet – and we certainly do in The Lady Shed – then it’s in our hands.
When affordable housing becomes unaffordable
Ten years in the making but after just eleven months the completion of an affordable housing complex in the Dorset village of Marshwood has come to a grinding halt following the collapse of the building contractors, Brookvale Houses (SW) Ltd.
The Lady Shed 