Knitting on the Green

The scarf I finished on Friday night/Saturday morning while listening to the news from Paris on the radio.  Destined for a Christmas present...

To Festiwool at Hitchin.  Given that I'd been up until after 3am listening to French radio, wandering around the house and ranting, I wa...

If you've watched/listened to the news today, it won't have escaped your notice that the Indian prime minister is in town.  And if y...

There has been so much overshadowing kerfuffle about the Cenotaph observations this year. I used to work about 100 yards from the Cenotaph a...

I'm loving the Great Pottery Throw-Down  on BBC2 at the moment.  Particularly the appreciation that this stuff takes time.   The art t...

Just spent the evening at an excellent performance of Henry V at the Barbican. Had the pleasure of the company of Nic AKA Yarns from the Pla...

Sometimes it's easy to get blasé about working in central London.  Recently, I've been doing a mystery knitalong which is shaping up...

A spool of blue thread , by Anne Tyler. London: Vintage, 2015. Abby Whitshank always starts the story of how she and her husband Red fell ...

.... no, it's OK. I'm not going to say it. But preparation for the End of Year Holiday is underway at casa Greenside.  This is par...

As November 5 rolls round, I suppose the thing that always strikes me is the image of the supposed signatures of Guy Fawkes both before a...

Confluence (n) : a place where two rivers or streams join to become one : a situation in which two things come together or happen at the...

One of the many reasons I don't blog much any more is because I spend nearly 4 hours of each weekday commuting.  And while I love trains...

It's not very often that I knit something for myself - something that isn't a sweater, anyway.  Usually, I'm knitting things to ...

So, I'm trying this thing again.     This time round, I'm going to try to make things easier on myself by saying I'll jus...

So, Festiwool was lovely.  An earlyish start, but Hitchin's only about an hour away even with a train change; friend Fran and I from the...

The more observant, or frankly the not-dead, may have noticed that the name of this blog is a Trades Descriptions error in 2014.  It's n...

I'm not sure the Christmas list needs revising here: the Mad Plaid might turn into a Christmas present, or it might not.  I am so nearly...

Monty, lovely Monty. Kevin Pietersen may have won Man of the Match, technically, but 11 wickets is just stunning. And here he is a...

Got up early this morning to make the most of the (rather marvellous) cricket on Test match special  - not quite at 4am, but during the lun...

East Lynne, by Ellen Wood [Mrs Henry Wood]. Oxford: World's Classics, 2005. I posted a review of sorts of this last week...  I'd ...