The blog has been a bit quiet the last week or two. As regular readers know, I like to post five times a week-sometimes more but I haven’t recently. There is a reason. You see I have a small amount of free time and, what time I have, I write. Recently though, my hands have…
My Dad’s mum taught me knitting when I was a very little girl. Nana Clancy had the patience of an angel and always picked my stitches up for me. I knitted hundreds of ‘scarves’ for my toys and I really do owe my love of the needles to her. I’ve knitted on and off ever…
If you had to pick the best invention ever, what would you choose? Antibiotics? The light bulb? Straighteners? Well, all of these are very good but nothing and I mean nothing measures up to the pom-pom maker. Seriously, I have spent my life cutting circles out of old cereal packets and struggling to get balls…
“A bear remains a bear – even when most of him has fallen off or worn away.” – Charlotte Gray This quote is especially true of my loved, old, bear. Teddy bears are magical creatures who provide as much love as they are loved in return. When the lovely people at What the Blazers…
Sheep shearing. My favourite day of the farming year. It s also one of the most tiring but it is such an exciting day and, with Boo being a bit older, it is the first we have fully taken part in. It began the night before as I prepared bread rolls (barm cakes if you’re…
