Platinum Jubilee weekend

How was your Jubilee weekend? Ours was very low-key; we had other family events on over the weekend so they took precedence but I did find a moment to walk around the village on...

A strand of turquoise blue yarn lies on a pale wooden table. The yarn has broken and been plied together again, leaving fluffy edges at either end of the join.

Help, there’s a knot in my yarn!

“Help, help, there’s a knot in my yarn!” Anybody who has ever bought a ball or skein of yarn, whether commercially produced or hand-dyed, has probably come across a join, knot or a dye...

Monthly Musing – May 2022 – Moving on

My Dad always used to joke that I had never really left home because I had left things in the garage that I never quite got around to picking up. There was certainly truth...

A partly-knitted sock in purple yarn is sitting on a wooden table. In the background is the cake of purple yarn and an orange mug.

Seven days

The days do pass quickly, don’t they?  Not so small daughter’s school broke up for a week off yesterday – not sure that she’ll even want to get out of bed next week after...

Paper booklets of geography revision notes lie on a wooden table.

In the thick of it

The GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) exams have started in the UK – these are exams that are taken by pretty much every high school pupil in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (Scotland...

A row of trees bordering a green grassy field. They are lots of shades of green. The sky is grey as it is raining.

Spring Greens

This is such an amazing time of the year – it seems that so quickly, all of the bare branches and garden spaces fill up with so many shades of green leaves and I...