Little Tin Bird

Can you imagine being able to dance like this? There was a Cadbury’s “Spots v Stripes” event thing going on in Millennium Square on Saturday, we (me and Fran!) stumbled across it after a scrummy lunch at Prohibition. The fact that I was stuffed full of fajitas didn’t help my envy of these street dancers! [...]

Good evening all :-) Andy has sort of fixed my laptop: it works, but I no longer have Windows Vista, I have Linux Ubuntu which is not an operating system that I ever thought I’d use. We are making friends, slowly, and I am coming to terms with the loss of little things I took [...]

Last night, my laptop broke. In a big way. This is causing lots of problems, especially blogging wise. I am posting this from my iPod, ie slowest way to type, ever.
We are working on a solution (I imagine it will involve Linux ubuntu) but I don’t know how long it will take or if [...]

Rather sadly, and very soon after Whiskey, Rocket the guinea pig passed away last week :-( He was my sister Rachel’s piggy and was about 5 years old which I think is the usual life span for a guinea pig. Usually we don’t “replace” pets so soon(I hate to use that term because you never [...]

First Anniversary: “Beach and Books” and for me, that’s a pretty perfect way to spend a day. We drove for two and a half hours to the Northumberland town of Alnwick so that we could spend some time at the rather fabulous Barter Books.

I’ve wanted to visit for a number of years but other things [...]

Thank you all for your kind comments about Whiskey-bun. It’s always really sad to lose a pet, it never gets easier no matter how many pets come and go. We’ve had pet rabbits and guinea pigs since I was ten years old and it’s terribly sad every time.
This week seems to have flown by, I [...]

Rest in Peace Whiskey bunny, you were so soft and beautiful. We’ll all miss you.
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One week is exactly how long I lasted before breaking into the Rico Cotton. (It’s also the length of time left until my wedding anniversary!) Does anyone else tie a little of the yarn to each label so that you have it for future reference? I always do this, the next step I have to [...]

This is my 200th post. Two Hundred! Goodness me, what a lot of waffle.
This month we will have our first wedding anniversary - can you believe it’s almost been a year? Such a lot has happened and it both feels like the time has flown by, yet also that soooo much has happened I can’t [...]

Before I start this pattern, I want to be very clear that I copied these squares from this photo by Dottie Angel. You can see her blog here. I didn’t use a pattern to make these squares, I made it up as I went along and I’m going to explain how I did it.

If you [...]