Desperate Reader

To add to the water pump woes, and the heat that makes it feel all but impossible to do anything, there's now an absolutely massive spid...

It is ridiculously hot here, which I do not like at the best of times. As the pumps that bring water to my flat keep cutting out and can...

I spent a lot of yesterday in the kitchen (thankfully a reasonably cool day compared to the forecast for the rest of the week) working throu...

This book turned up out of the blue when it was still cold and miserable back in the spring (thank you very much Bloomsbury), I spent a coup...

I meant to do this on Friday but waited until I'd finished the body of the jumper and the neck. Currently, I'm the proud owner/creat...

There's a William Morris poem, 'Love is Enough' that I particularly dislike - more now that those first 3 words are stuck on all...

I am the kind of tired you get to be when a large, very warm, dog with an injured leg decides at 2am that your bed is the place she wants to...

Amongst all last weeks recipe testing was a rhubarb and rose jam, partly inspired by my favourite soap (find  here ) and as now is absolutel...

I've reached the point where I'm knitting in steeks and only have a relatively small amount of the body of my jumper to knit just as...

For this Sylvia Townsend Warner reading week I picked up 'The Flint Anchor', which I bought from an Oxfam shop in a small Leicesters...