Now Wearing Purple

CELEBRATIONS AND RECORD BREAKING (HOPEFULLY)! We went to visit our girl in the north to check out her new studio premises and celebrate the start of her new venture. It was a four hour car journey, due to road works.  I have suffered car sickness all my life, but in recent years, it's improved and a couple of years ago I found that I can crochet whilst travelling, with no ill effects.  So happy with that discovery I can tell you.  I took a bit of hooky to while away the hours. By the time I'd arrived at the hotel, I had one of these and yes, I took wooden coat hangers with me. It's the kind of pattern you do from memory, which is just as well as reading in a car is a no-no for me. M's studio was a total wreck when she took in on, but in  a few short weeks, her lovely man C has done a complete refit, new plasterboard walls, a new tiled floor, work surfaces, sinks, everything she needs.  His lovely dad even pitched in to help screed the floor. C ...

AUTUMN WALKS AND KASUNDI MAKING The autumn weather has been glorious!  I even put my shorts on this week, as I got so hot cleaning the house. I've have been feeling a bit low in the last couple of days and knew a good walk would help. We decided on a walk along the ramparts of our local iron age hill fort, which as luck would have it, brought us to the pub. It is a bit unnerving that this sign is literally ten feet from the pub itself. Probably not wise to have one too many drinks on a dark night. On the walk, there are little gaps between the trees and hedges that give little vistas of the surrounding countryside. Ancient trees, still holding on to their remaining leaves. There are plenty of big, old trees with lovely, gnarly roots. You definitely have to watch your step here. I can image quite a few little critters living in this tree! One of my favourite books as child, was Wind in the Willows. I particularly loved the chapter where M...