Half way through

How on earth can we be half way through the year already?  It was the Summer Solstice last Friday (nearly a week ago!) and it always makes me a little melancholy to think that...

Monthly Musing – June 2019 – Good intentions

I’ve been going to a new yoga class with big daughter. It’s run by one of the teachers whom big daughter has got to know through her university yoga society, and having been to...

Don’t You Want Me Socks – free pattern

Have you ever heard of the online magazine called Knitty?  It’s the longest-running free knitting magazine on the internet (it’s been around since 2002) and each issue has some fantastic patterns by some fantastic...

Seven days

How has it been a week already? Diolch yn fawr (thank you very much) for all of your comments on my last post, and on my beginnings of learning Welsh.  I’ve found the course...

A Wet Wednesday in Winwick

Well hello to you!  It’s a wet and miserable Wednesday here in Winwick (how’s that for at attempt at some midweek alliteration?!) and I’m very glad that I took the dog for a walk...

After the holidays …

Small daughter went back to school after a week off on holiday last week and oh boy, there’s so much to catch up on!  I was looking through photos and realised that there are...