Looking for the extraordinary in the everyday. Sunday, 16 August 2015. Back in July when I first mentioned the Yarndale Sock Line.

Life, the universe and crafty goodness. Ripple Crochet Blankie Done! Today there is good and bad news. yaaaay! It is the first time I have tried the ripple stitch which is a lot quicker to do than I expected.

The A to Z of me! A few weeks ago my lovely fellow blogger Stevie at A Cornish Mum. Posted an A to Z about herself. It was great fun to read and she urged her readers to have a go. Always keen to accept a challenge, I thought I would give it a go. So here it is, my A to Z of me! I spent most of my summers as a teenager in Austria. Me and Mr R got engaged.

A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland. 8220;The sensible person practiced disciplines, like an athlete in training, in pursuit of the radical freedom to choose the good, unhampered by the pressures of the ego and the weakness of the flesh. A Book of Silence is published by Granta Books. On Trying to Keep Still by Jenny Diski. 8220;Back in bed, my body devoted to my racking pain and vomit control, I read about what I was going to.