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...

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...

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...

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...

A few extracts from my (fictional) diary – the content is real, I just don’t really write it down.  The time-scale is huge. Here is Rupert, dozing in the rare sunshine, this summer: 2nd...

Hi there, world. I used to be Little Miss Blog-Alot.  Now I don’t, so much.  Why, Ali? Well, I see site traffic so I know people visit me, but the blog is very quiet and it seems a bit...

This year, for the first time, we held a WIP amnesty day.  Instead of the usual 7 or 8 attendees, we had 14 knitters here and so we used both downstairs rooms.  The concept was:  bring a WIP or...

No cinema films other than one late screening of a release that is about 2 years old.  I saw Puzzle as it was an ‘if you missed this first time round’ screening at Scotts.  But you can...

I am slowly adding products to the website. I have started with Pom-Poms, a chunky, subtly sparkly hat (or scarf) yarn, called Lady Lame (pronounced laa-may, not lame), and a lovely, soft 100% pure...

One of the projects I am teaching here in April at the Embellishments Workshops is the icord-edge shawl.  And these are fully booked.  So I am teaching it – just focusing on the icord shawl...