Knitting on the Green

... on a lovely sunny afternoon in summer. Just as well I didn't need that pattern, then - I was still garter-stitching on the Wool Pedd...

or, the end is in sight - quite literally... On Tuesday, it'll be 6 months since I decided to take the garden in hand. It's a bit of...

On Tuesday of the week I was on holiday, I went down to London for the day to be a tourist. I started off at Piccadilly Circus tube station....

I was doing one of those new "staycation" thingies this week - had a week off, and not many plans, and it's been absolutely d...

A fair amount of knitting has been done, but both of the main pieces have been stealth projects (as is the current one...) I handed both ove...

This is Teddy Harvey (named so, because he had a near-identical-twin called Teddy Robson who belonged to my cousin... maybe he's still a...

I believe this is the female of the same species as the male in the previous post, the Migrant Hawker... This one landed on the top of a wis...

Perfect art nouveau moment out in the garden this morning - dragonfly and wisteria... Click to embiggen... Looking it up, I think this is...

Alternating an audio-book with Test Match Special this afternoon... I knew when I turned the radio back on just now that things weren't ...

I haven't been reading all that much, by my standards, recently; and I haven't blogged books since the middle of May; so here's ...

A random post; but the 400th one... I got a new 50p coin in my change today; well, not a new one, obviously, but one I hadn't seen befor...

Quite a lot of stuff this week; you might be able to see the garden's a lot clearer from here... Not necessarily from here; but it's...

My class last week spent a morning being random, based on Freddie Robins' piece How to make a piece of work when you're too tired t...

A day at the folk festival yesterday - fabulous music, much better weather than I'd been fearing, bumped into some old friends and ex-co...

aka the urticaria edition... Photos from last Sunday. Some progress this week... Lots more growth in the hanging baskets... ... but still h...