Category: Outdoors

Pink and green aurora borealis northern lights in the night sky. Trees are silhouetted against the sky

Blogtober 2024 : Day 10

Oh my goodness, I am beyond excited!  I have seen the Northern Lights in Winwick!  There’s a huge geomagnetic storm in progress tonight, apparently (not the same as storms on earth so not linked...

A copy of a book with a blue, green and yellow cover entitled "Clean & Green" lies on a granite worktop next to a bottle of tea tree oil, a jar of citric acid and a measuring jug on kitchen scales.

Blogtober 2024 : Day 4

Hello, and happy Friday to you!  It’s a late post today as I have been out for most of the day helping big daughter and her boyfriend move into their new house. They’ve been...

Sunlight on autumn leaves just starting to turn gold, against a dark stormy sky

Blogtober 2024 : Day 3

I had such a lovely day yesterday catching up with my friend Lucy (she of the blog Attic24) in her home town of Skipton in North Yorkshire.  It’s always worth the drive from Winwick...

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...