Knitting on the Green

Well, Monday turned out to be more interesting than planned; despite my forgetting my travel pass and having to go back for it, when I got t...

I pay good money to McAfee for virus protection... and you'd think that would give you protection? Hmmnnn... Turns out, not so much. Spe...

... for anyone who's read this blog for any length of time; but if you were to characterise my general approach to life, it would probab...

Not a particularly cultured selection: a lot of my library reservations came in at once. I was meant to be reading The elegance of the hedge...

Not that I blame it. It gets bitten, then it gets hurty, then it gets manhandled into a basket, taken to the vet and stabbed with a syringe...

... in the plans today; last night the Bug appeared after a day or so AWOL (not totally unusual this time of year but she usually comes in f...

SO, they're finally off ! The announcement that even the PM admitted was unsurprising has happened and the phony campaigning can finish...

Well - I managed the daily blogging thing for 2 days... Oops. It was a busier weekend than I'd anticipated - on Saturday I was working i...

My new toy arrived last weekend; the lady at the post office (who stitches) was very intrigued... I took an hour off last Friday afternoon b...

So, I've signed up for NaBloPoMo again. This month's theme is "Big". It's an optional theme, so you may just get me...

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...