Category: Outdoors

A green and yellow striped hand knitted sock on a wooden table

No such thing as normal

Hello hello, it’s Saturday again and the first week of our “new normal” … although I’ve never been normal in my life so I can’t see that I’m going to start now!  🙂 That...

Rows of barley stalks left in piles to be turned in straw bales

Fields of gold

One of the joys of living close to fields is being able to watch them change as the seasons turn.  Winwick and the neighbouring villages are surrounded by fields which grow a variety of...

A partly-knitted green and yellow sock on a wooden table next to an orange mug of tea

A bit of everything!

That’s what’s in this post today – flowers, fields, knitting, socks, cats … it’s a mish-mash of a happy week – oh, and a couple of photos that have been lurking in my camera...

Yellow and white chamomile flowers with a sunset in the background

Here comes the sun

It’s the end of week two of not so small daughter’s trip to Nepal and my stay-at-home holiday (I’m not a fan of the word “staycation”) and it’s been lovely.  The sun shone and...

As the sun goes down

The dog has decided that an evening walk is essential for a dog of his age and sensibilities, and likes nothing better than to walk in the fields at the edge of the village,...

A black dog is walking across a sunlit field towards heavy black clouds with rain falling out of them

On the bright side …

It was views like this that inspired the name of my Winwick Mum yarn colourway, Brightside, but despite the title of today’s post, I’m not sure that there is a bright side to all...