Notes from the Slow Lane

The Greyhound Inn This last Saturday was my dad's birthday and one of those crisp, cold, bright, sunny days that make winter so muc...

A couple of weeks ago my dad and I had great fun making our own Christmas cake, which due to an intolerance to eggs running in the family, w...

Today is Remembrance Sunday, a day I approach with mixed feelings, as I had more ancestors in the German and Austrian armies than the Britis...

You may, or may not, have noticed that this week is Shetland Wool Week , which is being marked in Shetland by a variety of events.  Entirely...

This has been a slightly strange week, during which the admonition to "Rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn...

... of the frustration of the knitter, who having embarked merrily upon a project involving a great deal of duplicate stitch, did find that ...

Today has felt like a long day, partly because it has contained a lot of emotions, some of them almost uncontrollably strong ones. I woke f...

Anyone who knows me well will know that I have quite a thing about butterflies, they fascinate me, they're so fragile, so beautiful, so ...