Category: Gardening

A courgette plant with yellow flowers and some courgettes growing

Blogtober 2022 : Day 25

I can’t believe it’s been a week since I went over to Skipton and out for a walk around Bolton Abbey … and even to the moon! Today has not been nearly as exciting...

A small pale yellow Calendula flower with an out of focus purple wallflower in the background

Blogtober 2022 : Day 9

Did you see the moon last night?  It was a full moon, a big, beautiful Hunter’s moon, so called because of the time when hunters’ prey was more easily seen in the bare fields...

A knitted ribbed cuff on a short circular needle lying on a wooden table next to a ball of yarn and an orange mug of tea

Blogtober 2022 : Day 3

It’s Monday and a whole new week – hello to you, I hope yours is going to be a brilliant one! When I left you yesterday, I had a brew in my hand and...

A knitted sock in pale pastel stripes lies next to the half-knitted second sock and the ball of yarn on a pink checked duvet cover

Slow Sunday

Hello to you, how is your week going?  It’s an odd one this week, isn’t it?  “A mixture of the usual and the extraordinary,” I heard it called on the radio and it is,...

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...

A partly-knitted sock in purple yarn is sitting on a wooden table. In the background is the cake of purple yarn and an orange mug.

Seven days

The days do pass quickly, don’t they?  Not so small daughter’s school broke up for a week off yesterday – not sure that she’ll even want to get out of bed next week after...