After finding my knitting mojo and recovering from Covid, I thought it should be a good time to be a little reckless and ‘knit’ outside o...

Using my brain to write a blog post has been outside of my capability for the last three weeks. Yes, I had a positive test and suffered a...

Interchangeable, circulars, DPNs, straight, bamboo, steel?????? There are so many options when it comes to needles and as a beginner it c...

We’ve all been there: you have five minutes to leave the house and you’re frantically scrabbling around for a knitting project you can wo...

What better time of the year to start a new hobby than right at the beginning of Autumn. We have darker evenings and I don't know about y...

My great first staycation in 8 months! It was exciting to take a journey of a couple of hours over the Pennines to one of my favourite pl...

If you visited this field in 1998, you would have seen a bleak area of potatoes and barley fields that stretched for miles across the hor...

10 Things that have made me happy recently I just realized that I haven’t written one of these posts in over a year. I think it’s because...

Where the Rainbow Hit Earth - A most beautiful, colourful Norwegian garden, on an island with a white sandy beach and my ultimate garden ...

Summer has arrived The anticipation in the lead up to summer has been building up for many months. And this year June has been so differe...

Midsommar 2020

And why, because its World Heart Rhythm Week 2020, an annual awareness week that focuses on detecting arrhythmias (irregular heart rhythm...

I do apologise for this rather late May update. I’m sorry that I don’t have an excuse, it’s just that I’ve been busy retreating to my gar...

If you are in the Conwy area of North Wales in the spring, lucky you! This time last year I was so lucky to spend a day strolling around ...

This time last year, May 2019, I was here in Catalonia, Spain….Jardins de Cap Roig In the northwest corner of the Mediterranean is the su...

April is almost over, the month of bluebells, it's the symbol of humility, everlasting love and constancy, and lockdown 2020. Well now, h...

This blog post is oh so late! The month of April seems to be flying by in these very strange times. I feel very fortunate at the moment a...

I’m very fortunate to have previously been able to work from home and have a home to work from. Unfortunately, my freelance work has comp...

January got no respect from me! I've been hating it this year. The damp, grey and eternally dark days made me so lethargic, together with...

Winter can be a wonderful time to visit France especially over the New Year period. January was mild, sunny, wide blue skies with a hint ...