Notes from the Slow Lane

During the commemorations for the centenary of the First World War last month I decided that I should re-read Vera Brittain's memoir Tes...

My swatch For a while now I have had a box of double knitting weight super-wash pure wool sitting in my room waiting to become a blanket...

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...