RIP Rupert

Tuesday 6th October 2020

Rupert (AKA Clipperdown Ralph Lauren) left us last Saturday. He died very suddenly, and even though I wasn’t there, Mark was and Arthur was beside him. Mark believes he had a massive heart...

Corona Update: a post of two halves

Monday 29th June 2020

In this post I will cover two areas.  First, the changes and adaptions I am considering for future events, both here, at venues where I am the host, and at venues when I am the guest teacher, such...

Corona. It’s a whole new world.

Saturday 23rd May 2020

Disclosure. This post – really it is an article – is political. If you don’t like political posts, wait until I get my finger out and finally get back to the knitting. That may be a...

Corona Knitting. Sort Of. And a moan about a pattern…

Saturday 2nd May 2020

I am still not knitting, really. A friend of mine though, I suspect to get me going – like roadside assistance only for stalled knitters, asked me to knit a tea cosy for him, and before I had...

Somerset in the time of Corona

Monday 23rd March 2020

EDIT: the holiday company I linked to has now contacted me to say they agree, they are taking that wording down and removing from the Visit Somerset website.  This is great news, so I have removed...

One of those faces…

Wednesday 26th February 2020

I think I just have one of those faces. No, not my resting piss-off face. I think I have a face, or maybe it’s body language, that makes people talk to me.  By which I don’t mean you, or...

One Day, in October (Diary)

Tuesday 22nd October 2019

As you know I don’t really keep a diary, except maybe this blog.  But if I did, the entirely truthful account of one day in October would definitely be part of it.  Very early, make way onto...

The Van Diaries

Friday 27th September 2019

If I wrote a diary (I don’t) and it was about my VW camper, these might be extracts. Late July. My friend of many decades, Jean, comes round in her old but lovely VW camper, Freddie.  This is...

Van Knitting

Saturday 14th September 2019

Well, a life-long ambition has been realised.  All my adult life I have wanted a VW camper van – and now I have one.   Anne van Shirley with Arthur looking on, taken near sunset at Steart...

My Other Life

Monday 5th August 2019

Not, I am afraid, as interesting as that title might suggest.  Sorry, as ever, to disappoint. But I do have another life, beyond, or maybe beside knitting. Before I came to knitting, my child, I had...