...we did the following: - Stayed inside and moaned about the heat - Baked a pavlova, topped with cream and passionfruit. Delicious! - Overl...

Happy Australia Day, everybody! (Too hot to write anything else. It's 38.7 C already !)

Tragedy #1 - I've run out of yarn for my Ruski! The horror! One measly ball short. That'll teach me to not calculate the amount I ne...

Announcing my project for the first ever 2006 Winter Knitting Olympics. Drum roll please.... Hello bobbley cardigan! I have wanted to make ...

I have just signed up for the Knitting Olympics . Heh!

Actually, it was the wool shop. Or rather two wool shops. Ahem. And look what she came out with! The bounty? Eight balls of Rowan Big Wool i...

One of the nicest things about the area I live is the little details. A lot of the original houses around here are over 100 years old. Peopl...

It's cold and rainy outside, and I'm stuck on sleeve island. As we all know, this is never a good place to be as it leads to Random ...

It would appear that this blog has become nothing short of a temple of worship to Kidsilk Haze, as it's all I seem to knit with of late...

Hello! I'm back! Our time away was amazing - it was so relaxing and invigorating to be down at the coast. Apart from a daily walk along ...

...even if he is a little squidgy around the edges. Introducing Mr Green-O-Bot, from Jess Hutchinson's fabulous Unusual Toys for you to ...

Well, a knitted babe to be correct, although at the moment it does represent some sort of alien entity who suffered severe charring when th...

Saturday evening was spent down at our local Carols by Candelight. I think I was the only one in the audience singing away, but no one was s...

Indeed - what has been happening? Well... - I got some snazzy wool from Marta's Yarns, which have, incidentally, opened a new shop in th...

The weekend was crazy, and I'm still recovering, so instead I'll just take a big breath and blurt it all out: in-laws for dinner, lo...

It would appear that, for certain monocotyledons, if you remove the top part of a stem containing the coleoptile then the plant will no long...

Today the Galumph and I have been married for three years. That's 1096 days! And in that time together we have moved house three times, ...

Because if you don't, the jumper you lovingly handcrafted for your wee little one may not be so much soft and snuggly as skin tight and ...

It's a sad but true fact that if you take your child to the museum, pay lots of money to get in and have lunch, tote them around to all ...

Yesterday I was able to scratch one more item off my ginormous list of things to be done before Christmas day. Introducing... Grumble's ...