Little bits of June

Long, long ago – or so it seems, though it was really only until around the beginning of May – I used to blog here… But since my blogging and, alas, crafting adventures seem confined to the hours of rain and darkness, and since we’ve been enjoying an unusually long spell of glorious weather with […]

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Apples and an Autumnal Cardigan

‘Autumnal’ is one of my favourite words but one I’ve had little occasion to use this year so I have decided to include it in the name of my very recently finished cardigan. The months are spinning by at a shocking rate and the harvest is harvested and the apples are nearly over. But the […]

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Flowers, flowers and more flowers…

Now the evenings are drawing in I’m finding a little more time for knitting and, being at heart a one project person, I’m keen to finish a cardigan I started early in the Summer. But when my friend, Sharm, started making a beautiful flower blanket I really wanted to crochet along so I’ve been making […]

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New to Me…

Happy Midsummer or Midwinter :) It seems like forever since I wrote a ‘New to Me’ post to link up with Fiona At Celtic Thistle Stitches – it’s so long, in fact, that I felt sure it was on the 15th of the month and I’ve just realised it’s not until 25th! No matter. I […]

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The end of the Goldfinch…

In general exciting news, we have been sent a new router by our ISP after having no internet and endless, monotonous endeavours to sort it out of late. Now it seems that I am again in the virtual world – though we are expecting a storm so, new router or not, my new connectedness may […]

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Fire and Ice (Party on the Pond)

Some say the world will end in fire,  Some say in ice… (ROBERT FROST) I’m not expecting to be here and have no preference either way (though fire seems to me more likely) but November was wonderfully full of fire and ice and I’m hoping the year will end with both (and snow of course!) […]

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