I have a thing for baskets… ask Ali (she’s like the basket police… I’m sure she’s getting paid by my husband to stop me from buying anymore)… Anyway, because I like old baskets they tend to fall apart quickly on me; this one had an annoying unravelling handle and it almost went into the wooden …
“Anything can happen” by Seamus Heaney. Anything can happen. You know how Jupiter Will mostly wait for clouds to gather head Before he hurls the lightning? Well, just now He galloped his thunder cart and his horses Across a clear blue sky. It shook the earth And the clogged underearth, the River Styx, The …
Walking the dog everyday for the past 9 years I’ve become totally fascinated with the amount of lost items I see lying around. I can’t just leave them be, I must take a picture. (Be warned… if you do that, people will give you funny look and cross the road to keep away from you. …
First pattern from the gorgeous Laine magazine. (I got my copy from Ysolda btw) It goes without saying that I didn’t have the exact same yarn that the pattern suggested so I had to improvise with my stash… bring on Manos del Uruguay ‘Silk Blend’ in a lovely ice grey. I also had to adjust the gauge and …
What a surprise of a book. I only picked it because I needed an author beginning with the letter ‘B’ this time and it was the first one I came across on my kindle. I just couldn’t put it down. It’s a family saga, it’s a wonderful portrait of a woman, it’s a snapshot of …
So… I might have sent Mr M and No 2 off to a hockey game at the wrong time today. Like an hour earlier kind of time. Yup. My bad. And the game is far away. And today is very cold. I felt the need to bake cookies to atone myself with them… although if it’s true …
Mr M arrived back from his business trip to China early this morning which is possibly the worst time to arrive in this house ever. Bed heads, grumpiness, cries of ‘I don’t have a shirt’ for school’ or ‘we need more cereals’, me telling everyone to hurry up. Not good. He sat through all this with grace …
… when you ask your teenage son to write the shopping list…
(I’ve started keeping my scissors and a yarn needle in this little rose gold pouch from The Future Kept in my knitting bag. Why didn’t I think of that before? I think it’s supposed to be a keyring… but hey…) Now that things are starting to quiet down a little (they quiet before the storm …
This is a picture of a screenshot of a photograph of a book cover. Still with me? Good because I’m barely hanging in there too… Sunday night and all that… Anyway in a case of platform cross-pollination I’ve decided to jump on the Instagram bandwagon of bookmusings and join the AtoZ Book Challenge. I’m sure it’s …
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