Camera in need of TLC

I have a much-loved and much-used Canon digital SLR camera – Rebel (300D, US model) in need of some attention, or it may be useful for spares. The card slot pins are damaged. We judged it uneconomical for repair and replaced it but if you know better, or can break it for useful spares, it …

HAP-piness is knitting for its own sake

Ugh. Migraine Here is one I made earlier: WIP Wednesday, and I cannot show you most of what I have been knitting for the last few days. So, what can I share? There has been a little turning of new leaf around here lately and I have been attempting to be busy and looking vaguely …

Not a stroll in the park

WHOOPS – forgot to press the go button when I wrote this last Sunday When I set up the new ordered categories for the blog, I intended Sundays to be for walking out with the camera and then coming back and photo blogging whatever I had been up to. I think that I am correct …

More Tell than Show

Today I knew that I had little of fibre interest to share with you – this mainly due to the ongoing clutter in my space preventing me from setting up any photographs. I planned instead to share just one photograph of something non-fibrous that nevertheless delights me. I bought it the last time that I …

Kleio

It seems apt that when I woke this morning I found an email alert awaiting me – the first of Romi’s Muse shawls is ready for downloading and testing. Now I must decide whether I am in on this one, or not. I have the yarn selected and can envision the finished Muse – but …

The Dairy Fiend

Treacle is taking things easy today – he had a busy night. Regular readers will know of Treacle’s dairy disposition. I have oft mentioned his ability to sniff out the opening of a dairy product from one end of our rambling house to the other. I wrote a Haiku of sorts about this tendency when …