Category: Family

An open suitcase with a turquoise blue hoody, a red, blue and white Guide necker (neckerchief) and a green and yellow fan lying on it

All my chickens …

have been back home where I like them to be this week!  I’ve had all my family in the house, even big daughter who has her own house but can still call this one...

A large cream-coloured cactus with furry legs (it looks a bit like a huge spider!) is sitting on a green table

Packing … and is that a plant?!

Hello, hello, it’s a flying visit today because we’re on countdown now to not so small daughter jetting off to Japan on Wednesday, plus we’ve got my cousin and her family visiting from Canada...

A partly-knitted blue sock on a wooden sock blocker, next to a leather project bag and an orange mug of tea. The socks have a band of golden fish in a red border around the top

Up the wall and Peggy Martin

My late mother-in-law was one of those people who had a selection of phrases that made perfect sense to her family but probably not much to anyone else.  My Nan was the same so...

A collage of nine photos showing socks, yarn, Super Socks books and the Winwick Mum logo

Are you ready?

And here we are again – at the start of the year with all of that time to fill spread out in front of us, like the view across fields and woodlands from the...

A large star decorated with berries hangs on a wood-panelled wall. Below is a vase of flowers and a bronze-coloured Christmas decoration

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve.  We’re ready now, or as ready as we’re going to be. It’s time to stop, to sit down, to be thankful for family and friends. I hope that you can be with...

A close up of chamomile flower. The flower is white with a yellow centre.

Waiting

I was going to write a different post this weekend but yesterday, I got a phone call from a neighbour to say that she had found Astrid, one of our cats, on the road...