Remembrance Sunday

When you go home, tell them of us and say For their tomorrow, we gave our today

Getting away from it all

The schools in England are on half-term holiday at the end of October.  My girls were so ready for a break, and the last week before they finished seemed to drag endlessly. We had...

Well-being

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve found myself knitting much more than I have done for a while and not just because of my newly-discovered rather long list of WIPs! Coincidentally, I’ve had...

A pair of striped socks in shades of coffee, blue, purple, orange and beige on a wooden table.

Projects on the go

Ask any crafter and the chances are that they’ve got more than one project on the go – and I’m no different.  Why do we do this?  Do we have a shorter-than-average attention span...

Behind the scenes at Yarndale 2015 – part 2

I was up early on the Saturday morning of the Yarndale weekend.  Too early, it turned out, for the kitchen to be open at my hotel but I got to see the sun rise...