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Wool on Sundays – 123 (A Helping Hand)

Welcome to another Wool on Sundays :) You may remember that before I went wandering about the North West of England with my camera (pictures in my Wandering Camera post) our garden really didn’t look too bad… When we got back, it looked like this :( Now, with Mr RH and I working day and night (well, […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Of flowers and fairgrounds…

If this were a gardening blog, I should not be short of things to post but I fear it would get very repetitive – weeding, clearing brambles, weeding, clearing brambles, weeding, clearing brambles… Luckily it is not a gardening blog so, I will spare you pictures of all the nettles and brambles and just show selective successes! […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Summer in colour

I am not very good at ‘wandering camera’. In June my Son came to stay with his fiancee, her sister and her sister’s husband. They set off on a walk with Poppy to our nearest village, which is a couple of miles away, and ten minutes later the skies opened in a torrential downpour so […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays -113 (Halfway?)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays! We’re almost half way through the year and, outside, everything is growing very green. Even the garden is growing, which I’m very happy about because it takes up an extraordinary amount of time with all the weeding and sowing and weeding and planting and weeding…it’s beginning to look as if […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

April and May

April was cold and full of grass. I’m pretty sure that it was the coldest month of the year so far. We had frost most nights and snow on two days. May couldn’t be more different – very hot and sunny. But although it’s officially Summer now, all around Spring is still Springing. I don’t remember it ever arriving […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

“Oh, to be in England now that April’s there | And whoever wakes in England sees, some morning..”

(Home-thoughts from Abroad, Robert Browning) WATER On the fourth day of the fourth month, four visitors arrived. EARTH Our hungriest, noisiest neighbour has taken to breakfasting on the ground. [Edited to add: This little bird is a Green Woodpecker. You can learn more about Green Woodpeckers here]. FLOWERS Pretty little wild things that don’t mind the morning […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 82 (Yellow September)

Welcome to another Wool on Sundays :) I really have never known such a yellow September – long may it continue! This sunflower is over three metres tall. It was self seeded and grew by itself and it’s the tallest we’ve ever had. Her sisters, which I planted, seem dwarfed at a mere six […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 79 (Another Textured Yoke Cardigan)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays 79! After the screen issues, my computer is back. I’ve been telling everyone it is fixed as it now has a new screen but this morning this happened again…. If anyone has any suggestions of what is causing this, please let me know. I’m, today, wondering if I’ve just paid […]

by Janine @ Rainbow Hare

Wool on Sundays – 32 (a sneak peek)

phone photo peek Welcome to Wool on Sundays – 32. I have finished my coloured yoke cardigan but my camera has gone away to Nikon to be looked at (and I hope to get fixed under its guarantee) so I will make a post about the cardigan when I have my camera back and can […]