Category: Outdoors

A wooden coffee table with a plant in a spotty plant pot, an orange mug of tea and two slices of toast and jam on a plate

Sunshine and showers

Well, not so much showers as torrential rain – I don’t remember it EVER raining quite as much as it has done lately!   How about you?  I hope you’ve managed to stay dry this week! March...

A pair of pink socks with deep purple heels and toes lie on a wooden coffee table next to a leather scissors pouch, a pair of gold bird-shaped scissors, two wool needles on a piece of a black fabric and an orange mug of tea

February days

I am having a bit of trouble at the moment making the days go slower.  It only seems to be five minutes since my blog post last weekend, and even today’s is on Sunday...

Hellebore season

Our garden is most definitely a spring garden, and there are most definitely signs that spring is on the way!  Some of my favourite spring flowers are the Hellebores which start appearing from late...

A hyacinth bulb in a glass jar next to an Advent candle in a reindeer-shaped chrome holder. Both are sitting on a wooden mantelpiece

Midwinter

One of my favourite Christmas carols has always been “In the bleak midwinter”, probably because the first verse is all about a snowy landscape, but I don’t think that growing up, I ever really...

A pile of purple books with the words Project Super Socks printed on them is stacked on a wooden coffee table

Progress!

Woohoo!  These are the proof copies of my new Project Super Socks notebook which went out for road-testing and now, with all the feedback in, the PDF has gone to the printers so that the...

A flooded footpath with a lady and three dogs walking through the water

Sploosh!

Well, if we thought we’d seen the end of the rain after a few sunny days, we were wrong!   I don’t know what it’s like where you are, but the footpaths are now “sploshpaths”...