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Lockdown Diaries: Knitting To De-Stress An Anxious Mind

May 1, 2020

I’m not the greatest knitter. I can knit a basic scarf. But I can knit socks – it involves double needles, slip slip knitting, turning the heel and tricks that will navigate you way to a small woollen item…
Lockdown Diaries: Cheating At Sourdough

April 29, 2020

You think you’re being highly original, then turns out you are not the only one, quelle horreur! To the extent that what you are doing has become highly mocked in some circles…
Lockdown Diaries | Covid News Junkie Trying to Read

April 26, 2020

This weekend I picked up a book for the first time since lockdown begun. I have been dipping into my current Kindle selections, but with little of the usual gusto I approach fiction – in the pre-Covid days, reading late into the night, regretting it the next, then doing just the same the next day…
Overnighting At Brownber Hall & Middleton Lodge

April 16, 2020

For February half-term this year, we hit the road northwards, destination Skye. A driving trip that packs in the hours, we made sure to overnight each way and the lovely Brownber Hall and Middleton Lodge were on the itinerary…
Don’t Forget The Neutral Utility Jumpsuit!

March 14, 2020

I’m getting very excited about spring prints and dresses, don’t get me wrong I’m still all about them rn – see last week’s edit; the green floral skirt went down a treat! – but just this week I fell back in love with utility jumpsuit!
Embracing The Early Spring Feels

March 6, 2020

As I write this, it’s a grey, gloomy wet day, but nonetheless signs of Spring have been slowly creeping in – blossoms and crocuses hallo! – and with it the mental shift that comes with longer days and slightly warmer temperatures…