Archive for the ‘knitting’ Category
Tweet:: light the lamps :: :: ponder a jigsaw with Abby :: :: set wild mushroom and barley soup a-simmering atop the stove (recipe from here ) :: :: bake a custard in Nanny Dougall’s old bowl (recipe below) :: :: wind a fresh ball of Malabrigo on Nanny Cottam’s old Toyota yarn winder :: [...]
Tweet It’s not really meant to be a stretchy bag – but being a crocheted bag, it has certainly proved to be stretchy. Of course, this can count as a feature – I’m sure we could fit watermelons in here and the bag would just keep on stretching. However, it may mean, amendments may have [...]
Tweetfor the homecoming of my girlie! Oh, when she pops through that arrivals gate, it will have been over three weeks since I farewelled her and Mum. They set off at the end of our summer holidays in Merimbula for the soggy hills of Brisbane, whilst Julian and I came home here. Then he left [...]
TweetAhh … it is always so lovely to come home. As much as I enjoy my days at the bookstore – there are always so many lovely books to fondle and read as well as lovely customers to chat with and listen to – as I walk through my door, an excited white puppy bouncing [...]
Tweet [ huh! can you see that! Julian planted the halloween pumpkin seeds in amongst my tomatoes ] It’s very rainy today. Can you tell from that photo? I do declare that trying to take a photograph of the rain is a bit like trying to see the wind. Do you know the verse … [...]
Tweet [ the view from our perch on Aunty Cate's porch - very very nice ] Hello my friends! By golly it has been a long time since we’ve had ordinary days round here in Bootville – back in mid November actually, when Mum had her eye surgery. Since then, everything has been topsy turvy [...]
TweetWhen a public holiday appears on our calendar, there are always many ideas bandied about as to what we could do. Today (a public holiday in honour of a HORSE RACE – can you detect my disbelief – a HORSE RACE!) amongst the suggestions were kite flying at the beach, a drive through Mt. Dandenong [...]
Tweet I had a lovely wee holiday with my Mum a week or so ago. Early on the Friday morning, we both flew to Canberra – her from Brisbane, me from Melbourne – where we hired a little car and blew our way across the Monaro and down the Great Diving Range to Merimbula – [...]
Tweet Living here in the temperate south – as opposed to the tropical north! – I am in awe that well into October / Spring we still need our winter woollies. The light filled days linger until so late. The trees are smothered in vivid apple green. Flowers are dancing prettily on every street. And [...]
TweetMum left this morning – her lovely holiday over, she had to fly onto Canberra for a boarding school conference before back home to work. We were sad. It was so wonderful having her here with us – Abby especially loves it. She and her Nan get up to so much mischief and giggling and [...]
TweetOh! Just let me catch my breath. If it’s possible Mum, I have sneezed more today than ever before in my life. My Mum won’t believe this, she’s listened to me – her ridiculously sneezy daughter – for too many years to believe this possible. But it’s true. I need nose tampons. Gross, but boy, [...]
TweetOne may be beribboned, so I hereby delare that one may also be bescarfed. Today, Abby and I are bescarfed :-) After a long night’s knitting – jolly good thing too, otherwise I would never have watched a fascinating program on the ABC about the Moorish/Islamic influences on medieval Spain – the school scarf is [...]
