Yow! April and May are almost over and it is almost time for a colour change in Project Spectrum. I have been busily collecting photos of pink, green and yellow but have only gotten round to sorting them out to post now. First up is the alpine strawberry which is growing in a pot by [...]
I have found that May has gone by so quickly that June is almost upon us! One of the sure signs that summer is on its way are the appearance of elderflower heads in the hedgerows. There is a soft fragrance which fills the air as you walk past them and they make the most [...]
I can’t believe a year has gone by since our beautiful, fat, loud cat went to sleep. We dropped into our vet on Friday and he mentioned how she was so good about never digging her claws into you and I felt the tears well up. We’d only had her for a few years and [...]
I’m all fixed again A combination of new hormones, that special time, the impending anniversary of Lucy’s being put to sleep, the aborted appraisal, two very special colleagues leaving and lots on made me particularly weepy and feeling low. I think on Sunday, I’m going to buy a rose bush to plant to remind me [...]
Perdita says: Mummy is extremely tired at the moment as she has been expending lots of nervous energy on that appraisal thing she keeps muttering darkly about. Thing is: the appraisal thing was cancelled at the last minute so she is now going to collapse in a heap with her knitting and her audiobook instead [...]
Now I know I promised some more on the elderflowers today (oops – yesterday even) but I got home very late after spending all day supporting a conference – I had to sit through the whole of the last two hours til just after 6 as I was photographing it and handing round the mike [...]
Found at Nic’s Edit the list, bold for stuff you’ve done, italics for stuff you plan to do one day, and normal for stuff you’re not planning on doing. Afghan/Blanket I-cord Garter stitch Knitting with metal wire Shawl Stockinette stitch Socks: top-down Socks: toe-up Knitting with camel yarn Mittens: Cuff-up Mittens: Tip-down Hat Knitting with [...]
I am always amazed about the lives of the hoppers who came down from London for six weeks of hopping as a holiday. The Museum of Kent Life has really good replicas of the hopper’s huts of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It is really interesting to see how things changed. This is the hopper’s [...]
As I am on a yarn diet until late August, pao kindly bought me some very nice gifts from the Mulberry Dyer at the Rood Fayre. It was quite interesting to see the colours that were produced by natural dyes. From L-R the dyes were: Alkanet; Indigo, Cochineal and Logwood; Safflower and Logwood; and Cochineal. [...]
No, no, not that sort of RUDE! The Museum of Kent Life in Cobtree was holding their first ever medieval Rood Fayre so pao and I got into the tin can and drove over there to have a look-see. I don’t mind the tin can but it is small and was a little scary when [...]