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 pair of socks in stripes of brown, red, green and gold on a pair of feet. The person wearing them is wearing jeans and the feet are resting on a wooden floor

Blogtober 2024 : Day 2

It’s been a long and busy day today – I’ve been up to Skipton to see a fab friend who crochets and also happens to be Blogtobering, but more about that visit tomorrow –...

A tube of knitting in pink yarn lying on a wooden table next to an orange mug and an open book

Blogtober 2024 : Day 1

It’s October!!!! We say “white rabbits” in our house at the start of a new month but you might say something different, and perhaps whether you have rabbits at all depends on the particular...

The sun is shining through a tree onto a garden filled with greenery. The Winwick Mum logo is in the bottom right hand corner.

Monthly Musing – September 2024 – New girl

“Hello!  Welcome to our club!” It’s been a long time since I’ve been the “new girl” at anything, and but here I was at my first session at a Tai Chi class and, staring...

A single blue hydrangea flower

Up on my back legs

Hello there, how are you doing?  It feels good to be writing today’s post as last week, I was feeling very sorry for myself as I had hurt my back with over-enthusiastic wielding of...

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...