Knitting on the Green

I've always thought of myself as a non-pink girl; but tonight, as I unpacked my pink Stanley flask and my bright pink phone, and my pin...

The time-traveler's wife, by Audrey Niffenegger [audiobook]. Read by William Hope and Laurel Lefkow. Bath: Chivers/BBC, 2004. OK; the fi...

And of course the week IKnit link to this blog on their newsletter, it's been "move away, nothing to see here...". The reason...

So; once upon a time there was a basic food-processor, and it lived happily in a cupboard in the kitchen until called upon to make coleslaw ...

Navel-gazing, I know... Wibbo said I rather enjoy entertainingly bad as read by Jeff Harding ;o) Honestly, I rather enjoy anything as...

A crop of three audiobooks and two actual books this time - combination of winter-bluesiness, class preparation and Ravelympics means the on...

So. The torch will be passed on to Sochi at Vancouver tonight... and I've managed to finish my Olympic projects. This was looking very ...

The Ravelympics progress is, well, progress... Neither of these pieces of knitting existed until last Saturday morning, so I've knitted ...

The lovers , by John Connolly [audiobook]. Oxford: Isis, 2009. Read by Jeff Harding. Charlie Parker finally investigates his past - we'...

It's all been quite slow around here at Knitting on the Green. The Seasonal Thing I usually get has been absent for the last couple of y...

It's the fifth annual cyberposting of poetry to celebrate St Brigid/Bridget's day. Officially this is tomorrow; but depending on wh...

Hi, Anonymous Rachel: you won the blog competition last week, but I haven't heard from you - do please send me an e-mail to liz AT lizma...

I had a phase before Christmas where I was getting very near the end of several books, but had so little to read of each that it wasn't ...

Thanks to the 8 people who put in estimates/guesstimates for the end-of-year competition; there was a good span of guesses, none of which we...

... of a thaw, seems to me, is knitting of a hot water bottle cover... I'm sure that by the time I do the decreases on this one over the...

NaBloPoMo isn't really working for this month. Partly it's the freezing temperatures; mostly it's spending 6+ hours each day ju...

Gave up entirely on my normal train route today, and went both ways via Liverpool Street, doubtless to the distress of the people who normal...

... was definitely taking the garden in hand. I went out there today, and although it's pretty desolate at the moment (and covered in th...

... is nothing. Well, about today's transport, anyway. Oh, OK. SIX AND A HALF HOUR RETURN JOURNEY TO WORK. I think that's all anyone...

The railways. (I typed failways in originally - I nearly left it there). The best thing about them - actually, on my line, normally, they r...