Monthly Archive: April 2015

Three balls of yarn - one 100g ball in orange stripes and two 50g balls in blue and red stripes above a blue skein of hand-dyed yarn.

Beginner sock knitting: Sockalong – yarns

Well, hello!  It’s nice to see you for this first pre-Sockalong post!  I’m very excited about the whole idea and I’m really looking forward to getting started. Where do we start?  Well, we could...

Lazy days

It’s been a strange Easter school holiday this year.  Both the girls have had two weeks off, but their holidays have only overlapped for one week.  Big daughter spent her week off before Easter...

Feet!

Our postman had no idea that the white plastic mail bag he was delivering contained body parts … Here in Winwick, we still have a postman who arrives in a red van and stops...

Easter Sunday

First magnolia flower – and one of the first bumble bees I’ve seen this year … Simnel cake, decorations by small daughter … Helleborus niger – Lenten rose … Cornflower blue Anemone blanda and yellow celandines...

Monthly Musing – April 2015 – One of us

Small daughter is going through a “what if?” phase, and whilst providing hypothetical answers to seeming endless scenarios, the lyrics to a song called “One of Us” by Joan Osborne popped into my mind....