Category: Outdoors

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...

A woodland path surrounded on both sides by wild garlic. The garlic is flowering and there are white flowers amongst the green

Saturday mornings

There’s something about a Saturday morning.  Not having to reach to turn the alarm off at 6.30am is my favourite part, and although we have to be up and out reasonably early to get...

A close up of tiny white blackthorn flowers on a branch

Sunday catch up

I’m getting really fed up of the rain now, it’s hardly stopped all week.  The dog and I have got wet a few times, Hattie the cat has got wet a few times and...