Yearly Archive: 2016

Back to school

Don’t you just dread the alarm going off on a back-to-school morning?  I’ve been getting up at pretty much the same time over the holidays so it’s not like it’s a surprise, but this...

The sun is shining through a tree onto a garden filled with greenery. The Winwick Mum logo is in the bottom right hand corner.

Monthly Musing – June 2016 – Earth

There’s a prose poem by Joe Miller, an American artist, which starts “If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter …” and goes on to say how much better care we would...

British Knitting Awards

Oh goodness me – something very exciting has happened! An email popped into my inbox last week which made me squeal with delight when I saw it … Wow! The British Knitting Awards are...

Peru Socks

Peru Socks

I mentioned the other day that I had cast on a very special pair of socks, and I’m going to tell you all about them today.  Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about the DK...

Bank Holiday Weekend

Here in the UK we have had another Bank Holiday long weekend.  For small daughter, it’s the start of a two week break and for big daughter it’s the end of her time at...

“Oh, the summer time is coming …”

I’ve been out in the garden today after a busy (and very wet) weekend where I didn’t do a great deal other than sit and knit.  Oh, it was bliss! The garden, however, didn’t...