Hi, I’m Hope, and I live in North Central Texas. This past spring, my hoomans and I went to a private garden near our small town. Clark Gardens was started many years ago in 1972 as the homeowners landscaped their own yard. In 1999, 143 acres were donated, and the landscaping continued until there were magnificent gardens covering the grounds. …

After seeing the falls from the Argentina side (more about that in a future blog post), we hopped over to Brazil.  The Belmond has the happy position of being right inside the park, and we were in the happy position of staying there, as Miss Tipsy Cat had more or less planned our whole trip around a particular event – and …

Bakewell Pudding – Yes Please Now, did you know that Bakewell Pudding and Bakewell Tarts are two different things?  The famous pudding which gave the village its name (well, according to Tipsy anyway), was supposed to have come about from a misunderstanding.  The happy accident occurred when the mistress of the White Horse inn instructed her cook to add an …

Being a city cat who had had enough of the ‘cat race’ for a while, Tipsy decided that it was time to dust off the cobwebs and get some air into her lungs and whiskers, so we set off for the Chilterns and a bracing springtime walk on the Dunstable Downs.  Just over an hour away from London, it’s the perfect …