It's been a fair few years now that I've felt increasingly uncomfortable with Mothers Day and Fathers Day - but particularly Mothers Day...

As my nearest and dearest know all too well, I'm not good at cleaning and tidying. I do like things to be neat, but once they start...

This month I've discovered that I can actually manage to follow audiobooks while knitting, and rather enjoy them too! There's a part of...

I've never really considered myself an adventurous person, but rather would describe myself as averagely average, predictable, just...

I know I’m far from alone in finding it difficult to cope when there’s too much on my plate, and recently I’ve been struggling a lot....

For the past few weeks, I'd been increasingly certain that my oncology checkup this past week was going to bring bad news. In my head,...

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I'm currently in the process of knitting a beautiful lace shawl for the Chaos Gremlin (formerly...

Through this month I've continued (and finished) my re-read of the Anne of Green Gables series, as well as a variety of other books. I...

Those who know me – or have met me, or have read my blog – know that I love kayaking. It came as a total surprise to me when I first...

Having knitted most of a sock in early December while on a long weekend in France, I managed to finish knitting it a week later - and...

This has been one of those weeks that simultaneously feels as though it's flown past, while at the same time each day has lasted about 72...

I don't make new year's resolutions - I'm not sure I ever have, really, but over the past decade or two it's become more and more of a...

December really wasn't being a good month for reading - or at least not for finishing books - until I got Covid the week before...

I've seen the little book nooks for the last few years - you know the ones, the little tiny house, street, bookshop or cafe scenes which...

As indicated by the fact this post is three days late, and wasn't drafted in advance, this Christmas is absolutely not conforming to the...

Following last week's post, this week I'm feeling satisfied that my GCSE French from 30-mumble years ago is still vaguely helpful....

This weekend my mum and I are off on our own little adventure to France. Actually we're going to visit Elder Daughter and bring back as...

It's been a draining and exhausted kind of month, and I've started a new and rather complicated knitting project, so my reading time has...

Or at least not to this cancer patient... I know that people mean well, and generally just don't know what to say, but there are a few...

This is going to include spoilers, as I can’t see how to write this up properly without them. If you haven’t yet watched this but want...