Knitting on the Green

Making heavy weather of this - another photo-heavy post which makes Blogger/Flickr unhappy... So, on the Tuesday morning, after an emergency...

A little bit of description of the classes I took, as I've finally got down to the bottom of my suitcase, and disentangled this mass of ...

So - after a huge hiatus with only book reviews on the blog, I'm back from Knit Camp in Stirling, with photos. Not as many photos as a ...

Trouble, by Jesse Kellerman. London: Sphere, 2008. When medical student Jonah Stem goes to the rescue of a young woman who is being stabbed ...

Sacrifice, by S. J. Bolton [audiobook]. Read by Vivien Heilbron. Bath: BBC Audiobooks, 2009. Consultant obstetrician Tora Hamilton hires a J...

The 19th wife , by David Ebershoff. London: Black Swan, 2009. A book group book, and another very good reason for joining a book group. Actu...

It seems like an awful long time since I posted, and lots of things have happened! Towards the end of April I had a birthday, which stretche...

Third book review post running! I promise some knitting content in the next one... In the bleak midwinter , by Julia Spencer-Fleming. New Y...

The brutal art by Jesse Kellerman [audiobook]. Read by Adam Sims. Oxford: Isis, 2008. The third member of the Kellerman family (son of Jonat...

Ford County , by John Grisham. London: Century, 2009. A collection of short and longer stories: Grisham seems to get better and better in hi...

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...