Knitting on the Green

Adventures in stationery: a journey through your pencil case, by James Ward. London: Profile, 2014. This is a lovely romp through the hist...

A wanted man, by Lee Child [audiobook]. Read by Jeff Harding. Whitley Bay: Soundings, 2012. Lee Child and Jeff Harding are pretty much the...

A willing victim , by Laura Wilson [audiobook]. Read by Séan Barrett. Oxford: Isis, 2012. In 1956, DI Ted Stratton is investigating the de...

I'm not sure this is still a Thing; but I realised today that it was St Brigid's day. And I said a prayer for the Brigids/Bridgets I...

Cop town , by Karin Slaughter [audiobook]. Read by Lorelei King. Oxford: Isis, 2014. Kate Murphy, a Vietnam War widow, decides she can...

Dead cold, by Louise Penny [audiobook]. Read by Adam Sims. Oxford: Isis, 2006. The rather dreadful CeCe, an incomer who has made no effort...

Bones never lie, by Kathy Reichs. London: Random House, 2014. Tempe Brennan can't work out why she's being called unexpectedly dow...

The daily blogging being completely blown, at least I can show you what I've been doing with another of this month's tasks - the NaK...

It's a month of slightly grim anniversaries, it seems... Was walking past one of the memorials at King's Cross this morning, which w...

Thomas Quick: the making of a serial killer, by Hannes Råstam [audiobook]. Read by Peter Noble. Rearsby, Leics.: WF Howes/Clipper, 2013. I...

So, other than attempting to blog every day, one of the other things I'm trying to do this month is knit a sweater.  Or in this case, a ...

I went to the Parliamentary remembrance service today at Westminster Abbey; everyone who works on the Parliamentary Estate was invited to ...

The observant will notice that Day 9 is missing.  I have no idea how I failed on Day 9; I was at home all day, and after a small amount of e...

Went to an excellent event on Thursday night at Waterstones Cambridge, having seen an ad on Twitter; Kate Mayfield, talking partly about her...

I was going to talk about last night's wonderful Waterstones event in the second half of the book theme, but I'll do that tomorrow....

I finished this book today, and I loved it.  So much so that I'll read it again to condense the review into the usual format. A big ...

I grumble a lot about the commute down to London.  I like to think I have justification for that - paying nearly 20% of my salary for a lous...

One of the things I'm most impressed by in the new King's Cross is the theatricality of the space in the new concourse, and the way ...

So, Festiwool was lovely.  An earlyish start, but Hitchin's only about an hour away even with a train change; friend Fran and I from the...

For the moment, I'm just going to give you the Sparkleduck Sock Yarn Wall of Longing.  Unfair, I know; but it was a bit of a mad day, a...