Tagged: 2017

Knitting socks with Arne and Carlos

Quite a few people wondered what I was doing at Black Sheep Wools last week when I arrived for the latest Arne and Carlos workshop – their sock masterclass.  “Don’t you already know everything about...

Happy things

What’s made you happy this week?  For me, it’s been … 💕  walking with the dog Even when the weather is a bit rubbish and I can hear the rain on the windows before I...

From sheep to socks – sorting fleeces

Warning – this post is sheep-heavy! 🙂 The weather was pretty rubbish for the whole of the half term school holiday that we had here in the UK a couple of weeks ago, and...

Remembrance Sunday

“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example” Benjamin Disraeli, speech to the House of Commons 1 February 1849

Knit all the socks!

And here we are at another weekend.  Not many to go now before Christmas, I have been reliably informed by small daughter who keeps waving her wish list at me.  It’s different every time...

Monthly Musing – October 2017 – Hamster wheel

A friend and her family have recently been looking after some gerbils for her son’s friend.  Gerbils are busy little creatures, always ripping up cardboard, racing up and down the ladders in their cage...