Knitting on the Green

Bit of a mixed bag this time round! At home , by Bill Bryson [audiobook]. Read by the author. Bath: Chivers, 2010. Supposedly a history of ...

Hmm. I have a feeling that it's not entirely in the spirit of the "blog-every-day-for-a-month" ethos to fail to post until th...

Hello all: thanks very much to all 24 people who commented on the 5-year-anniversary entry! So good to read all the positive things people ...

It's not often you knit a whole sleeve on a day's commute. Today was one of those days; but then, when the sleeve's only this lo...

As part of thinking about the best things I've made (in the knitting sense), I was also forced to admit today that there are some things...

Well, it's five years today since I opened my Blogger account, and 505 posts down the road, here I still am. I didn't put up my fir...

I have been knitting; honestly. I'm just aware I haven't blogged any for ages. Some of this has been that delay you get where you kn...

Ash and bone , by John Harvey. London: Heinemann, 2005. A non-Resnick novel (although Resnick appears in a cameo), with the same characters ...

Weirdly, as I walked over the Golden Jubilee Walkways from the north to the south bank of the Thames, this song came on the iPod. Seemed v...

Well, I had a lovely day. At the weekend, I e-mailed SusieH to see if she was free to meet up, as we've been promising to for several ...

The third option, by Vince Flynn. London: Pocket Books, 2001. Another very gripping thriller by Flynn, which incorporates characters from hi...

Edited to update: Drama over... thanks all for your good wishes. I got an e-mail from the lost property office at Cambridge station mid-mor...

I was going to post on the entirely positive experience which was the I Knit Weekender last weekend; but I couldn't avoid talking about ...

I was going to blog about IKnit - but this event starts tomorrow and it'll be lovely. Hope anyone from the area who was at the Weekende...

Well. Since I last posted it's been busy. I went down to Jan 's and we knitted on her balcony in the sun and ate a couple of very ...

Trip the Second: the Trossachs and Loch Katrine Couldn't have been more glad that the outings were in this order - because this one was ...

I booked on two afternoon/evening outings from Camp; and as with everything at Camp, it was a game of two halves... Trip the first: New Lana...

So, I left you with the pipers rehearsing outside the Castle. The weather had cleared quite a bit since I set off, and the landscape was be...

A river in the sky, by Elizabeth Peters. London: Robinson, 2010. I've read all the books in this series, the last few shortly after they...

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