Outside My Window ... blue skies and a briskly col d day after a deep frost last night.   I am thinking   ... about various things I want...

I am in the mood for a random meme to get myself back in the habit of posting again, and I spotted this one at What's Happening At My Ho...

How cool is that! The introduction to Lord of the Rings ends with a section titled 'Note on the Shire Records'. I particularly lik...

Outside My Window   ... another damp and chilly January evening. I am thinking   ... of nothing more taxing than this blog post. I've ...

1. The photo in my header was taken in the Lake District last February, looking across a rooftop in Grasmere (home of William Wordsworth) to...

Cherub's topic at school for this half term is space and the solar system, so we have been looking at space stuff at home. We just disco...

Outside My Window   ... a wet January evening, following a (very) wet January day. Cherub is the only person who doesn't mind the weathe...

Cherub was given The Fish Who Could Wish by John Bush and Korky Paul as one of her Bookstart books. I didn't realise until a trip to t...

Outside My Window ... January. Cold, grey and damp. As the week goes on it is supposed to change to warmer, grey and damp. I am thinking ...

1. Last month I upgraded my rather battered MacBook with extra RAM and updated software. Just before Christmas I finally replaced the power ...

Inspired by this article by historian Bettany Hughes listing her choice of the ten greatest Englishwomen - I'm not claiming these are t...

Outside My Window ... a cold evening, and a few pathetic damp flakes of snow. A final fling for December's cold and snow - January is ...

However bad I am at keeping them, I always like to have goals or resolutions for a new year. This year I am going with short and simple, and...

I have checked off two more items from my Day Zero Project list , bringing my total so far to seven: 55. Watch all 3 Lord of the Rings mov...

Thanks to Ravelry I know that I completed thirty three knitting projects in 2010: Thirteen pairs of socks Three pairs of mittens Four pairs...

Looking back at my blog for the year: In January I thought about the care and feeding of children , we had snow days , and a new little dan...

Perhaps I should rename this blog The Foodworm. I have definitely done more eating than reading this year, and probably more talking about f...

Cherub to Angel, bouncing with delight at her achievement: "Guess what! There was actually a time when I didn't spill my apple jui...

This is Cherub's princess box: And this is what is inside: Together with: And so on ... fossilised shark's teeth, a c...

Outside My Window  ... the snow that fell nine days ago is finally beginning to thaw. It has been a cold, cold week. It is supposed to be ri...