Notes from the Slow Lane

No garden looks its best in January and the garden is squelchy all over from the endless rain.  Nonetheless there are some bright points, so...

It cannot be denied that as far as I am concerned 2015 was a bad year for blogging.  The completeness of the change brought about by moving ...

July is not the most usual month to make good progress on blankets, but this has not been the most usual July.  There have been days when be...

As you can probably tell, I have got thoroughly out of the habit of blogging, not helped by a cat who objects to me spending too much time a...

This month we have a book on a slightly different topic, Toynbee Hall: The First Hundred Years by Asa Briggs and Anne Macartney .  For years...

If I am honest I put too much hope in the election result, in a change of government, in a change of culture and approach.  The exit poll an...

Finally I am up to date - just about!  This month's book is another I have listened to while knitting, Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollop...