Category: Outdoors

Getting back to it

Phew, this week has zoomed past – here we are at Sunday already!  It’s been a back to work, back to school, back to university sort of week and it takes some effort to...

Getting closer

It should never be a surprise to me that Christmas is on 25 December; the date doesn’t change and I’ve been around for a fair few Christmases now, but despite my good intentions of...

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...