Stuff
This is where I post about things I have tried and enjoyed or not enjoyed.
Ladybird, ladybird
Ladybird, ladybird fly away home! Your house is on fire; your children are gone. I really hate that these macro lens photos are so out of focus, and I hesitated before posting this, out of embarrassment at my lack of forethought. You obviously need a tripod or...
Willow song
A weed is a plant in the wrong place. The sound of chainsaws resonated across our garden at breakfast this morning. That huge, beautiful, pesky willow was being cut down! Long-term readers of this blog - how I pity you - will recall how this misplaced tree, on top of...
The trials of a symbiotic relationship
ctually, I'm not sure that it's real symbiosis, because it's not clear what the New Zealand Tree Ferns get out of it, but they provide lots of lovely little niches in which woodlice can make their homes. It must be annoying for them that someone...
Early morning visitor
I was delighted to see this little fox in my garden early this morning. I'm not sure if she's the same one who was a frequent visitor last summer, even venturing into the kitchen one evening, but I've been thinking about her, so I hope it is. I'm not sure she was...
Waste not
I'm a big fan of the new zero-waste shop, Slowood, that's opened by our new Discovery Bay bus station in the last couple of months. The idea behind the shop is that you buy as little or as much as you like, avoiding the waste of over-buying by weighing lentils,...
July
es. I know I've been quiet except for these monthly crochet and knitting posts, which provide at least a bit of focus for my life. They’re not just about knitting, of course. It's not that there's nothing else to write about. Of course that can't...
June
In my defence, I had not anticipated when I planned this temperature blanket that the temperature would be quite so relentlessly stable in June. It's rained and thundered a few times, but my design has no way of depicting this. As it is, there's been a whole month of...
May
Words, words, words! I'm so sick of words! I get words all day through, first from him now from you, Is that all you blighters can do?! My Fair Lady, Lerner and Loewe That's how I'm feeling at the moment. There's everything to say about this *gestures around*...
April
A month in to my temperature blanket project and this is as far as I've got. My daily knitting interlude, with the previous day's The Archers in the background, has become an anchor point in these days of staying in. We haven't really had a lockdown here in Hong Kong...
Casting on
The project: I was entranced by seeing weather throw pictures from some of my friends on Twitter, most notably @riverwillow8 and, in need of a project to distract me from the dreamlike semi-lockdown existence in which I now find myself, this seemed like a good idea. I...