I've been rather busy of late - busy marking student teachers' assignments (a task made less tedious by finishing off the Christmas ...

Most weeks I work from home for some of the time, but this week it's been every day.  I really enjoy being able to do this but this week...

Back in October Fran and I went to the Knitting and Stitching Show at the Alexandra Palace and, amongst other things, I bought some Lutradu...

I guess this post could also be subtitled 'Some of My Favourite Things'.  It's been rather grey here for days now, and although ...

During December I followed the Garden Bloggers' Advent Calendar and was amazed that I actually managed to work the answer out from the ...

We finally got real, proper snow here last weekend.  This is what my garden looked like at the beginning of the week.   I couldn't ge...

My granny taught me to crochet when I was about 9 and every so often I get an urge to crochet something. Usually what happens is that I buy ...