Category: Monthly Musing

I’ve thinking a lot recently about “home” and what “home” actually represents. There’s the bricks and mortar concept of home, and that’s where my thoughts started, in a conversation with big daughter as we...

Big daughter passed her driving test this week. It’s a milestone in what’s going to be a year of milestones – A Levels, Peru, university – and she’s very pleased to have ticked this...

I’ve been asked quite often recently whether I’m proud of what I’ve been doing over the last year – the Sockalong blog tutorials teaching people to knit socks, the tutorials book, the Yarndale Sock...

I met up with a friend recently and as is usually the case with Mums, our conversation turned to our children. Our eldest children are both studying for A levels so we had an...

The New Year is here again, a clean page upon which to write all the adventures for next year.  It’s a time to build on last year’s successes, to start new projects and even...

It seems that this year – for adults at least – Christmas has lost some of its sparkle. We wonder how we can celebrate when there is so much fear and violence in the...