Who would have thought that an insignificant little thing like a French Knot could keep me from knitting. Well it has. I cannot progress with my green cardigan until I have French Knotted thousands of knots all over it. My cardigan will remain in bits until I can get over my hatred of French Knots. [...]
Well, I got my replacement worms for the wormery and threw them into it. Every time I went to check on them I found them all at the top trying to escape! I swore at them and called them bad names. I thought they were ungrateful, sure hadn’t they been thrown in with a heap [...]
The hound and I went on another of our trips to Whitepark Bay yesterday. We make use of the fact that Dave is heading to Ballycastle to dive, and we tag along for a walk. It is a good beach as it is never too busy – the long walk down the hill from the [...]
An attack of junk comments has kept me busy behind the scenes, but thanks to my man D it’s all been cleaned up and dealt with, for now. No longer do I have to waste hours deleting shite. You would think that would give me more time to create, wouldn’t you? I have also found [...]
Some might say that I should have been packing my bags to go to London for my Aunt’s wedding. I might say that it is much better to spend the afternoon out to lunch with my sister followed by a lovely walk with sister, J and the dogs. The dogs had a lovely time. Gracie [...]
Once again let me state that I have not been slacking. I have been here all the time, but with very little to say. I am writing this because my blog looks very bare today, with only two posts written in May and none for June. Today I will be going to the market with [...]
Definately no slacking happening here! Okay, so maybe a little lazy updating this, but I’ve been busy knitting, walking, cooking and working. We are all tired from our busy day. Gracie is currently burrowing a comfy spot on the sofa beside D; who is lying sleeping, covered in a paw-printed dog blanket. I am cooking [...]
The ferry over to Rathlin Island was rather a rough journey on Monday. For the second time that I remember I felt sea sick; first time was also on the Rathlin ferry. D tried to distract me by talking about the Jim’ll Fix It where the lads went on the rollercoaster and one of them [...]
I have discovered that I enjoy morning walks with my dog. On Tuesday Gracie and me went to Glenariff Forest in the morning and it was quiet and peaceful. There were only a few folks about early in the day and hardly any other dogs, so, at least Gracie was calm. Now, having said that [...]
Tired and achey, that’s how I feel. We’ve been out for a walk around hills and woods. Yesterday I cooked food all day – roast lamb, roast spuds, carrot and parsnip mash and some broad beans I found at the bottom of the freezer. I also made rhubard crumble for pudding and a large batch [...]
Today was the start of Gracie’s Easter Break. She started her day with a big lie-in, then went out with her Auntie H for a frolic behind the fire station. I do believe that H has folicked many times behind the fire station, but she was younger then. After lunch Gracie went with D to [...]
The door knocks. Outside I find a McN workman holding a piece of crushed pipe. He says, “I hope you weren’t planning on inviting us in for a cup of tea”. The thought hadn’t crossed my mind. Why? “Well, we’ve cut through your water pipe”. And me with guests arriving at any moment! How long [...]
Miss Macy has gone. Back to Dingle Dangle with her boy friend Scruff. Gracie has been quite sad. She doesn’t like sleeping alone, or being alone. She is going to get a bit of a shock next week when D goes back to work. At the moment she is lying in bed with D. She [...]
Here is a tale which I hope you will all heed – be very careful when handling sharp knives. My beloved has got himself a sharp knife for working with wood. I am generally early to bed and D stays up a while whittling sticks. He has been making a bow drill for making fire [...]
Miss Macy Moriarty has been staying with us for a couple of months. Sadly, she will be heading home to Co Kerry sometime soon as her owners are coming back from their holiday adventure. We will all miss her very much. Gracie will be totally miserable. We have made her a jumper, from Stitch ‘n [...]
