I do normally try and keep my blog a happy positive place but I saw my doctor tonight and realise that the strain of looking after a very sick person has gotten to me somewhat of late and I have been feeling a lot more fragile than normal so bursting into tears whenever someone says [...]
Thanks ever so much for all your kind comments recently. I’ve got another week at the Horsebridge Gallery this week and it has been a bit of a slog this time as I’m still under the weather but that didn’t stop me from figuring out some new ways of displaying things. I had a bag [...]
1. I’m itching to get into the garden to do some tidying up and planting. I am staring longingly at seed packets and my messy garden. 2. I’ll stop wishing that I’d have finished my blanket so I can use it. 3. I’m keen to get back outside into the sunshine again. 4. The days [...]
I’ve been poorly again this week. Catching a cold is a dubious business and I spent last night bundled up in blankets and still shivering and cold. Better today after sleep and paracetamol but I still feel a bit ghastly. It is just the kind of time to knit socks. They are dark and not [...]
My friend’s mother sent this book for me and I did smile when I opened it up and saw the sock pattern in the front cover. This is the second in the Blossom Street yarn store series, the first of which I’d read and enjoyed several years ago courtesy of Jeanne and Chris It is [...]
Sirius is such a character – recently he has become even more clingy and soppy than ever so he is more and more helpful. Each ball of yarn is careful inspected then sat on – perhaps for smooshiness. Any moment he can find to receive affection he will – I’ve never known such a cat [...]
I wandered into that dangerous place The Sewing Shop again today and came out with a project idea that I’ve been toying with for a while. I didn’t fancy making another bag but Aideen suggested that I try making a needle roll. It took me a fair while to pick out a couple of nice [...]
Just so you know! Yum! Homemade Nutella Black and White Pretzels Orangette recipe Just a short linkity this time. Early to bed for me!!
There is something very beautiful about socks. Quite often, I will be quietly knitting some when I catch someone staring out of the corner of my eye and wondering quietly to themselves what I’m doing. Other times, curiosity will get the better of them and they will come right out and ask. I suppose that [...]
Although this is the story that precedes Death by Design, I didn’t feel at all like I’d missed anything by reading them in the wrong order. A violent criminal, Yusuf Kaya, escapes from prison by faking a heart attack. He is an extremely dangerous man with a far-reaching drugs empire and Ikmen and his second-in-command, [...]