Knitting on the Green

Make me, by Lee Child [audiobook]. Read by Jeff Harding. Whitley Bay: Soundings, 2015. Another excellent Jack Reacher book; I really don...

The pie at night: in search of the North at play , by Stuart Maconie. London: Ebury, 2015. Mr Maconie does it again, with his combination ...

Kennedy's brain , by Henning Mankell [audiobook]. Read by Anna Bentinck. Oxford: Isis, 2008. When archaeologist Louise Cantor's so...

The hour: sporting immortality the hard way, by Michael Hutchinson. London: Yellow Jersey Press, 2007. Hutchinson ( @Doctor_Hutch on Twitt...

The citadel, by A J Cronin. London: Vista, 1996. Originally published in 1937, this is a powerful, semi-autobiographical novel about a doc...

The next stop on Woolly's 10 year anniversary blog tour after Susan Crawford's lovely post - this is editors' week!  Introducin...

The scarf I finished on Friday night/Saturday morning while listening to the news from Paris on the radio.  Destined for a Christmas present...

To Festiwool at Hitchin.  Given that I'd been up until after 3am listening to French radio, wandering around the house and ranting, I wa...

I had an idea for a post tonight; but there are no words compared to what's going on in Paris. Other than maybe, dear God, not agai...

If you've watched/listened to the news today, it won't have escaped your notice that the Indian prime minister is in town.  And if y...

There has been so much overshadowing kerfuffle about the Cenotaph observations this year. I used to work about 100 yards from the Cenotaph a...

I'm loving the Great Pottery Throw-Down  on BBC2 at the moment.  Particularly the appreciation that this stuff takes time.   The art t...

Just spent the evening at an excellent performance of Henry V at the Barbican. Had the pleasure of the company of Nic AKA Yarns from the Pla...

Sometimes it's easy to get blasé about working in central London.  Recently, I've been doing a mystery knitalong which is shaping up...

A spool of blue thread , by Anne Tyler. London: Vintage, 2015. Abby Whitshank always starts the story of how she and her husband Red fell ...

.... no, it's OK. I'm not going to say it. But preparation for the End of Year Holiday is underway at casa Greenside.  This is par...

As November 5 rolls round, I suppose the thing that always strikes me is the image of the supposed signatures of Guy Fawkes both before a...

Confluence (n) : a place where two rivers or streams join to become one : a situation in which two things come together or happen at the...

One of the many reasons I don't blog much any more is because I spend nearly 4 hours of each weekday commuting.  And while I love trains...

It's not very often that I knit something for myself - something that isn't a sweater, anyway.  Usually, I'm knitting things to ...