Tuesday, December 31 2013
Tuesday, December 31 2013. Fun
As 2013 draws to a close I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all my lovely customers for their wonderful support during the year. It has been a busy, and at times positively hectic, year.Looking back before I look forward to 2014 I must say that there have been some real personal highlights. […]
Monday, December 30 2013
Monday, December 30 2013. Dogs
We have had so much rain over the last few weeks that the hills are a little, ummmmm, slushy! So we decided to make it easy on ourselves and on Peggy and Lexie and we headed for the Little Assynt All Abilities Path near Lochinver for a stroll. The path network is surrounded by high anti-deer […]
Friday, December 27 2013
Friday, December 27 2013. Archeology
I'm not really one for KAL's (for the non-knitters among you KAL means "Knit-Along"), as I don't like knitting deadlines. I'm even worse at doing Mystery KAL's, which is where you have no idea what the finished item will look like. Instead the designer sends you a clue every few days […]
Saturday, December 21 2013
Saturday, December 21 2013. Burns Night
Today is the shortest day in 2013 in the northern hemisphere. As Freyalyn put it beautifully on twitter this morning:I wish I could bring you a beautiful, calm, snowy winter scene today, but unfortunately what we have is wind and rain, thunder and lightening, stormy clouds, and not an awful lot of […]
Thursday, December 19 2013
Thursday, December 19 2013. Lace Club
What a busy few weeks I had while in Australia. My time there just flew by, and I can hardly believe that I am already back home. Now I just need to get over the jetlag and I'll be feeling almost myself again.While I was in Brisbane we spent some time going through photographs that my Mum and Dad […]
Saturday, December 7 2013
Saturday, December 7 2013. Garden
Having spent time looking through Mum and Dad's old photographs while I'm here (and believe me, there are many! I'm taking home a 32GB usb stick FULL of photographs), I realised just how important it is to take family photographs. Before I arrived in Australia my sister, Alison, had arranged for a […]
Thursday, December 5 2013
Thursday, December 5 2013. Lace Club
Today began with the retrieval from the back of a cupboard of a suitcase. A simple, old, rather battered, heavy brown suitcase.I knew that the suitcase held many memories and lots and lots of photographs, but I hadn't expected to find so many treasures.Soon the lounge floor in my Mum and Dad's […]
