Christmas gift shopping. You can love it, you can hate it; you can buy into it, or you can opt out of it - no matter which way you cut it, you just can't ignore it. I'm trying to do as much of my shopping as possible offline, from bricks and mortar shops in my… Continue reading A bricks and mortar Christmas
Category: Norwich
A new dawn
I am slowly regaining my balance after a hectic autumn into which I have crammed enough life experiences to see me through at least a couple of years. I am enjoying my new job, settling into my new home, and just beginning to feel myself unfurling from the inevitable tension all these changes incur. Since… Continue reading A new dawn
Inevitable
If you watch the modern iteration of Dr Who you may be familiar with the departure of David Tennant's Doctor and his final, despairing phrase: "I don't want to go." Knowing that in the next two months I have to leave the flat I've been lucky enough to live in for the past fourteen years,… Continue reading Inevitable
A curiosity cabinet
Today I am going to write about a miscellany of ideas, connected only in that they spark my interest, thus the title of "Curiosity Cabinet" seemed appropriate. To kick things off, there is progress on my Crazee Cowl and I am now on the seventh of the planned ten colours. I must admit I am… Continue reading A curiosity cabinet
Word of the Week – Aspire
Wow, that's an image to set us ablaze on a Monday morning! It seems to me, looking at the human race as a single entity, that it is driven by aspiration now more than in its recent history. It isn't so much that there is a greater desire for achievements, but that the achievements themselves… Continue reading Word of the Week – Aspire
A weekend chez moi
Good morning, my friends. I think today I am going to do a general round-up of things that I did over the weekend. Firstly, though, just how pretty does Norwich look with its wonderful watercolour sky? On Saturday, I visited the Norfolk Makers' Festival with one of my best friends who is also a very… Continue reading A weekend chez moi
InCoWriMo 2019
Today is the sixth day of the International Correspondence Writing Month 2019 and I am pleased with my progress to date. Whilst the aim is to write a letter - or, indeed, any hand-written missive which can be a note, postcard, post-it, so long as it's written by hand - every day through February, many… Continue reading InCoWriMo 2019
A weekend in review
Continuing with my slightly tardy theme, today I'm going to write about the various elements of my weekend. On Saturday I went to a meeting of the Castle Writers Group at the Castle Museum, Norwich. This is a monthly meet-up that has been going on for many months now, but this is the first month… Continue reading A weekend in review
Inspiration and a Sopwith Camel
It has been a funny old week, with me veering wildly between a total lack of inspiration and an outpouring of inspiration that didn't know where to stop. Not the kind of week where I have been able to get things under control; and when I say "things" I mean my head. There is a… Continue reading Inspiration and a Sopwith Camel
A cast-on, an update, and a modification
THE CAST-ON On New Year's Day I finished the socks I had been working on seemingly forever, and I put away my sock-knitting project bag so that I could concentrate on the Gaudi cardigan. Then my sister appeared wearing the beautiful hat she had whipped up in a trice from the Noodle Soup Yarns skein… Continue reading A cast-on, an update, and a modification
