Category: Family

A collage of nine photos showing flowers, berries and leaves in Autumn colours

Blogtober 2022 – it’s a wrap!

Hello!  I bet you didn’t expect to see me today! It’s the first of November and Blogtober 2022 is over – but I can’t quite let it go without a roundup of a fabulous...

A pad of writing paper with a pink and blue cover lies on a table. On top of the pad is a clear plastic pencil case filled with pens and next to it on the table is a blue lanyard with the word "student" printed on it

A new routine

September has long felt like the start of a new year for me, and this year has been no different. Not so small daughter has started college, school runs have finished for us as...

Four knitted socks in sizes from large to baby are hanging on a mantelpiece decorated with Christmas greenery and fairy lights. Each of the socks is a different style but all are knitting in WYS Gingerbread yarn

Gingerbread – WYS Christmas 2022 yarn

In what has become a tradition almost as eagerly as awaited as the Christmas TV programmes schedule, the WYS Christmas sock yarn for 2022 has been released!  Hooray!  West Yorkshire Spinners have been producing...

A sock in rainbow colours on a dark blue background is lying on a pale wood table next to the cake of yarn. There are two working yarns on this sock. In the background is a leather project back with the brand name MUUD on it.

August days

When not so small daughter finished school back in June, we said that we would make sure that we didn’t waste the extra-long summer holiday that she has this year. The main mission was...

Blue flowers that stretch right across the field into the distance

And it’s August!

Hello, hello, how are you doing? Phew, July seemed to pass in a blur in our house so it’s a bit of a relief to have reached August in one piece! 🙂  I thought...

Domed towers stand out against a blue sky

À Paris – part three

There has been so much to write about the few days that not so small daughter and I spent in Paris – I certainly didn’t think it would take up three blog posts! (part...