Mine, all mine

On this occasion I knitted a neckwarmer for my Etsy shop, cast off and thought, nah, bugger it, I’ll keep this one. It’s too soft and snuggly, you see. I don’t like the idea of someone else wearing it when clearly I am the one who should be wearing it. But I’ll make another one [...]

Mmm, leaves

The leaves, they were raked. I filled a bin liner full of them and Mother Nature, upon seeing my work, today said, “Ok, well here, have some rain that makes more leaves fall off the trees and into your garden.” I’m going to need another bin liner.
Last night we went to a bonfire night celebration [...]

And on the seventh day she bitched about how much her back hurt

It’s Saturday tomorrow. The weekend. I’m very excited and do you know why? It’s all those leaves out in the garden that I’ll be raking up. The compost bin is very full at the moment, so tomorrow’s rakings will have to go into a plastic sack for the moment. But having had a potter around [...]

7 Days – Autumn mosaic

Woe is me, I say. WOE.

I have a sore throat. Bits of me ache. My hair needs washing.
But all these problems pale in comparison to the one currently troubling me most of all:
I CANNOT SEE INTO THE FUTURE.
I mean really, what kind of world is this? How else am I meant to know whether I should keep my work updates [...]

Patent pending

I’ve been putting a few things up for sale on Etsy recently: scarves and hats and a short neckwarmer that I finished off with the button that had needed adding. It’s a big chunky knit, meaning thick yarn and big holes between the stitches, but the button I wanted to use only had small holes, [...]

Size does matter – as does the intensity of the orange hue

So you remember my first carrot, right? Well, I’ve dug up a few more since then. Five, to be precise, giving me a second harvest of 247g. Four carrots came from the left hand end of the row; the end that didn’t look so promising. They weren’t particularly long, but they were nice and thick [...]