Ahhh, it's Friday. I've been at work seeing patients, and then later I was at home, reading bedtime stories to the twinnage, and now, still home, I'm on the sofa with yarn, wine, and very little intention of moving. It's been gloriously warm and sunny here these past few days... ...which feels slightly surreal, because exactly one month ago today, I took this photo whilst I was out on a run:- Meanwhile, the Stoic Spouse has been perfecting his patisserie skills, and each weekend lately, Continue Reading
Outdoors Knows It’s Pretty
You’ve still got time (just!) to enter the Wool And The Gang yarn giveaway! Just head over here… Meanwhile, I’ve been all over the place – knitting a bit of this, crocheting a bit of that, drifting from room to room, bumping into members of the household whom I’d forgotten existed... “Great uncle Mortimer! Heavens, I haven’t seen you since the Great Tidying Up of ’96! How the very devil are you, ol’ bean? What’s that you say? Huh? Oh. What, that cupboard there? The one with the hefty lock on Continue Reading
Crochet Therapy
...And then there are days that don't quite work. Do you know the feeling? I think I'm still raw from intense hours with patients' harrowing stories at work this week. And the Toddler Twinnage were a leeeeetle bit relentless in their Mummy-Mummy-Mummy-Mummy-Mummy all day today. And I possibly ate too many of the choc chip cookies that I baked this morning. And my first attempt at crocheting my bag strap in the round went all Mobius on me and had to be ripped out. Yes, yes, I've got these Continue Reading
Puts down crochet. Observes natural world. Smiles. Picks up crochet again.
...Of course the advantage of finishing the ridiculous monster afghan is that almost any other knit/crochet project now seems quick and easy. I'm currently dabbling in floral hippos. But more on that very soon. Meanwhile, despite the omission of any kind of meaningful winter (the flooding doesn't count), spring has most definitely sprung in rural Oxfordshire. I just thought you might like some more blossom. This is blackthorn:- And so is this:- Beautiful? Oh, and there were Continue Reading