How often during your busy workday do you take a break (besides lunch)? For Swedes, the time-honoured ritual of fika—translating to...

I’m hoping things are beginning to make us feel better with the prospect of longer and lighter days ahead. Being able to see family and...

Olive and Auburn knitting project bags are designed to ultimately please the needs of both knitters and crafters. Elegant, stylish and...

It's really a gloomy time of year and going out to eat is not something we can do at the moment, being in the midst of Lockdown Number 3....

With the arrival of colder weather, I've been cosying up with my knitting. This December I have being knitting mittens and hopefully they...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Midsommar 2020

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

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...

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...