De-stash

Don't panic lol - not me!!  My friend is having a de-stash and is offering some lovely fibre, take a look: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/toggleknits/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25&_trksid=p3686 Thanks :)

Completely appalled by this

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142121/School-meal-shockers-Croquettes-ice-lolly-cucumber--lunch-pupils-captured-girl-9.html Can't find any words; had me in tears that our children are being fed this sort of rubbish, You go Martha...............  x

I'm so glad I'm not a plant snob..............

lol - or I may have missed out on this beauty This cost me the grand sum of £1 in Morrisons supermarkt the other night. Isn't it perfectly lovely?  It has a label saying it's an auricula, but that's as far as it goes. As I say, I'm no plant snob, and I don't buy my plants because of their name or associations/supposed associations. I'll buy some having been inspired by something/someone/a book - yes, but I won't go on and on and wax more than lyrical with overblown nonsense about them -  'Oh yes, My Madame Hermione Grainger is just romping away over the sunporch you know, and the underplanting of  sage Hugh Fearnley Oliver is just divine, don't you know!!' There are no name labels in my garden apart from some nice copper labels ( acquired from the tip, no less lol) on the specimen trees with a thought for those who may come behind me. Big lol at the plant snobs from me. I buy plants because I like them. ps - I got two very pretty clematis at £1.79 each and two pure white delphiniums for £3 as well ; a couple of weeks ago I got two dicentras for £1.50 each too - always worth a rootle around in the supermarkets for them. Their trees are very good too, I 've had several over the years - silver birch for £2, apples for £5. Sometimes, there are more plants than food in the trolley, but I see it as food for the soul................... just waiting for the rain to stop now. I am re-doing the area outside the kitchen, so want to get all my new plants in there, so I have a packed and colourful bed to look at while I'm washing up. Simple pleasures - you can;t put a name tag on them, can you?

Baking on a Tuesday

Dyeing with onion skins

- will produce something like this:  I'm not sure what it's destined for yet, but I'm very pleased with the colour, a lovely, even shade of gold. This afternoon   nettles!!   lol

Harebell project

Well, here goes, I'm taking the plunge, at long last, into pattern writing (as in knitting pattern); these two skeins are inspired by harebells, so am going to write up and test out a scarf pattern I think. The colours in these are just lovely; the wool is 70%  organic pure wool and 30% alpaca, soft as anything.

Land art

Richard Shilling's land art - have a look at this!  Stunning work; I love the wee stained glasses from leaves and twigs. Very inspiring :)

http://richardshilling.co.uk/index.html