Split Mittens – free pattern and tutorial

As I’ve got older, I’ve realised that I’m much more of a mitten than a glove kind of person.  I don’t deny that gloves are practical and useful and I have more than a...

A woolly week!

It’s been an exciting and rather woolly week so far – my favourite kind of week! After playing in the snow for a while on Sunday morning, I abandoned my usual housework jobs to...

Delamere Forest

We woke to a frosty morning yesterday, and after a rather lazy start decided not to waste the rest of the day and get out in the fresh air.  Big daughter had homework to...

Mid-January

It’s nearly halfway through the first month of the year.  The time is moving scarily fast and whilst that would seem to be taking us to the Spring more quickly, I’m not so sure...

Reasons to be cheerful

Ugh.  It’s been a rather grim, wet week.  I haven’t seen the sunshine much at all except for the odd brief flash of it here in Winwick and on other people’s blog photos which...

And we’re off!

The first new week of the New Year and it’s all systems go … as if the systems ever shut down over Christmas anyway!  It always used to be that the days between Christmas...