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...

It’s been a bit slow in terms of going to the pictures.  There has been little I really wanted to see, but this week I did go and see Fighting With My Family.  Now, hear me out.  It’s...

Most recently, I went to the pictures to see Green Book. Last night it won best film Oscar.  Edited:  I have read a lot of critiques on Green Book, focusing on the way it has a simplistic...