A Knitting Conundrum

Today is cold and misty and feels quite miserable after all the recent sunshine. In all honesty, I was not displeased that today was not my turn for exercise. That said, I must be doing something right because yesterday I exceeded my 12,000 pace daily fogoal despite the lockdown. I confess myself impressed. I must …

Comforting

Well, would you look at this? I appear to be knitting. Doing actual knitting. I actually started this Baktus scarf (Ravelry Link) whilst we were away for the winter. I managed four tiny rows and never picked it up again. The yarn is a cheap ball that I bought in Action. It’s a 4 ply …

Behind the lens (December Reflections 18)

This December Reflections prompt is not my favourite topic: Favourite Photo of Me. Made all the more difficult by the fact that the blog will not allow me to upload images right now. I confess that personal photographs are not my strong suite. I do not have a favourite photograph of myself – not this …

Une Petite Fleur (December Reflections 14)

The fourteenth prompt for December Reflections 2019 is: Floral One of the great things about living in France is that it is so very floral. There’s nothing that I like better than a Village Fleurie and we get to see many of them on our travels. In May 2019 we were in the Ardèche and …

An Island Year (December Reflections 11)

December Reflections prompt number 11 is: 10 years ago. Same old problem… all my images are at home. I don’t appear to have been Blipping at that time but I have managed to log in to Flickr tonight and refreshed my memory… Ten years ago, I was living one of the outer Northern Isles of …

All that glisters is not gold (December Reflections 10)

The tenth December Reflections prompt is very simple: Gold… Simple perhaps but it has had me stumped, with so few images available for me to select from. I had planned to buy some Chocolate Christmas Euros at the supermarket and to take a photograph of those but I kept on forgetting to make the actual …