Notes from the Slow Lane

A challenge to myself and to my usually gloomy outlook: to find and write about some best bits or favourite things from the past year. Kni...

Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you have had a joyful day however you have spent it.  Our robin has been on good form today, whether he kno...

When I was a child December seemed to stretch forever, day after day, marked out in little cardboard doors, tantalisingly keeping me from t...

Finally a finished piece of knitting to show off, a little jumper for a baby cousin, the pattern is Fiddlehead Pullover and the yarn Patons...

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 was one of those glorious, crisp, sunny late autumn days and although I did not manage to scrape together the energy to get out in it,...

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...