Desperate Reader

I'm still being floored by a really vile cold - it's nasty enough to have made reading a chore, and to have destroyed my interest in...

I'm back from Vienna, wgphich was wonderful, with a stinker of a cold which is not. It's been 4 hours now and my ears still won'...

After feeling generally low and washed out for what feels like weeks I've had a really good day off. The sort that starts with a solid n...

As someone who has always loved books and reading one of life's great pleasures is being able to buy pretty much any book I want, and mo...

I might not have been reading much over the last week but I've been thinking a lot about knitting. I'm neither a fast nor a particul...

It's been a long, dull, exhausting, week of post Christmas clear up at work which has included a full audited stock count. Consequently ...

I've finished* my first knitting project of the year - a pair of boot toppers using the instructions from the book 'Shetlandic Knitt...

Turns out 2017 was a really good year reading wise, certainly in terms of quality, there have been some excellent books - to the point that ...

I've spent most of the day making marmalade, it stubbornly refused to set for a very long time (I hope it's done now, it was looking...

It's the time to make some resolutions for 2018, and I'm going to keep mine realistic (and champagne based). This year will end and ...