Notes from the Slow Lane

Alas moving house has absorbed all the energy (and some) of the first three months of the year, so I am catching up on the first two months...

December has been flying by, as it always does, so here is the fourth poem, another serious one, but shorter.  This poem brought me up short...

I discovered this poem last Christmas, in an Advent book called Haphazard by Starlight, which has a poem for every day of Advent and loved i...

This Advent I thought I would mark the Sundays of Advent by posting some of my favourite Christmas poems, one on each Sunday, although the o...

This month's book, The Dreaming Suburb by R F Delderfield , is one set locally to wear I live, which is always a matter of great curios...

Yet again I have let the month almost slip through my fingers and get away without me having written about this month's book, or rather ...

January feels like a month to be endured, despite having a birthday in its middle I still feel less than enthusiastic about it.  The fairy l...

I know I am a little late to the party but I came across this idea from Laura at a Circle of Pines , for an informal, book a month, book gro...

I am still behind with blogging, this time because of a week effectively wiped out by a cold in the head, a minor affliction that is capable...

Life has somehow overtaken me and I am now two weeks behind in "52 weeks of happy", it may be challenging remembering what happene...

I've been meaning to write a less "heavy" post for a while now, but haven't quite got around to it as I've been feelin...

I turned twenty-six a couple of weeks and I'm still trying to adjust to being a really very adult age. It is the sort of age where one ...

This sunflower grew up by itself, probably from a seed in the bird seed feeder and is just on the cusp of flowering. It's amazing watch...

This weekend has been lovely, peaceful, quiet, social, but not in an overwhelming way. Yesterday I spent the morning watching Time Team on...

I am pleased to announce that the vine yoke cardigan did 'work', it fits, doesn't look too silly/outlandish/hand knit and is won...