Category: Outdoors

Out and about

Hello!  How are you doing? It’s the school half term holidays in our part of the UK and small daughter and I are appreciating not having to get up too early for a whole...

British Knitting & Crochet Awards 2017

This was my view on last Thursday afternoon as I got out of a taxi at Alexandra Palace and looked across the London skyline.  I’d travelled down from Warrington earlier that morning to meet...

First week back

Hello, and how are you? Safe and dry, I hope – the weather this week has been quite wet and wild, the tail end no doubt of Hurricane Irma which has battered the Caribbean...

Addressing the mess

Even during the school holidays, my determination to get to grips with the clutter we have in our house has endured.  It’s been so tempting to say “nah, leave it, I’ll do it in...

This and that

I don’t know where the time is going. It’s Thursday already!  The days are rushing past, seemingly ever-faster, and it seems as if no sooner have I got up in the morning than it’s...

Bank Holiday

It’s been another Bank Holiday Monday here in the UK, which is usually the cue for chaos on the roads as people travel home from long weekends away and is a good excuse for...