Notes from the Slow Lane

Once again I have ventured onto eBay, that dangerous treasure store, and emerged with a copy of the March 1953 edition of Needlework Illustr...

This month's book is actually a children's book, Grace by Morris Gleitzman , a British born author who has lived in Australia most ...

I listen to the radio a lot, a great deal more than I watch television and it is great to listen to while knitting.  My two staple radio cho...

Again, scraping in close to the wire, partly this month because for most of the month there was no one book that grabbed me and that I felt ...

We all have our chosen mode of distraction when things are hard, some watch TV, read or play computer games: this past week or so I have bee...

The news lately has been abundantly dark, full of the terrible things we humans do to one another and I admit I have been finding it hard to...

This month's choice was something of an epic, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, I listened to all 27 or so hours of it on audio boo...