Someone beginning with ‘R’…

This week we’ve had a surprising guest. A tiny little bird who bounced up and down all day long on the hydrangea outside the kitchen. We thought he was a baby and we were concerned that he couldn’t fly because he just went back and fourth from the twigs to the window sill. We kept […]

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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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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, […]

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August – Wandering Camera

My camera is not usually very good at wandering – most months it gets about as far as the garden – but during August it has been out and about to the point that I’m in danger of never finishing a post! So, today, I’m going to share some pictures of our recent holiday and the chaos […]

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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! […]

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Wool on Sundays – 118 (a grand day out)

Welcome to Wool on Sundays and many thanks for the kind comments about my ripple blanket last week :) Lately, it seems that I am constantly kept from sewing, blogging or wool work by one thing after another. The most fun of these things was going to a Steam Fair. It was a big family outing […]

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