Normally, I would prefer to keep my charity work well under wraps, funnily enough this particular charity appeal could be titled ‘Well Under Wraps’. I am keen to get everyone knitting an item for charity. Nelly has already highlighted the plight of those ladies who have been walking around with their bellies hanging [...]
I have, eventually, made a return trip to Rathlin Island. It is ten years since I last visited - a trip I remember well as it was an art school trip and my main interest was in drinking alcohol rather than drawing landscapes. But then, I’ve never been overly impressed with landscapes anyway. [...]
Having read in today’s Belfast Telegraph a list of Northern Irish words I went to the BBC Voices website to have a look at the full A to Z of words. I spent a while looking at one particular page before realising that I was looking at a picture of my very own Beloved [...]
I finished these socks last week. I feel that I am well prepared for the cold weather!
There are some interesting patterns and general knitting info over at Xtreme Knitting - see the free pattern for toy dinosaurs.
My evening has been spent baking. Several hours of butter, sugar, flour and eggs, followed by mountains [...]
Today at work I had a gentleman call to visit me. He brought me a copy of a poem which the previous week, at a function he was attending and I was working, he had quoted a little of to me. He also told me a joke but I am hopeless at telling [...]
Last night my man and I laid into the booze like it was going out of fashion. Fortunately for me, I know my limits and headed off to bed at two in the morning (well, I’m not as young as I used to be!) My man drinks faster than me, so he [...]
I am an absolutely awful nurse to a sick person. I have very little patience for ill people and wonder why they are so bloody lazy that they can’t get up off their lazy arses and do something productive. And stop whinging about being ‘in pain’.
My Beloved has a sprained ankle and I [...]
You would imagine that someone who has been attending a knitting group would have a few garments to show off. Well, I do. A word of caution to any pregnant persons with a name starting with the letter E: do not click on this link if you don’t want to spoil the [...]
I have finally managed to upload all my decent holiday pictures to flickr. D also has some piccies posted - mostly of fish!
