Opportunities to get out in the garden are more limited these days but I did manage several attempts. I like when the cat follows me round the garden. Sunday, 10 May 2015.

8220;The pied wagtail, Motacilla alba,. Is a delightful small, long-tailed and rather sprightly black and white bird. When not standing and frantically wagging its tail up and down it can be seen dashing about over lawns or car parks in search of food. You can read more at the RSPB Website.

Thursday, June 1, 2017. Apparently May slipped by without me noticing, at least as far as my blog is concerned. Which means there is lots of catching up I need to do. Knitting seems like a good place to start. On the left are the Apple Blossom. And on the right are some of my plain vanilla socks, made special by the fact they were knit with some lovely self-striping yarn from the Knitting Goddess.

Basically it does not want to give me. Any clues as to how to work it. Five years during my seven days absence. The Bonfire of the Vanities.

An Open Letter to My 15-Year-Old Self Just Before the Start of High School. You will not be cool until your late twenties. This will be obvious the moment you graduate, but in the meantime you might have to make a point of remembering it. Out of Sight is Not Out of Mind.

Friday, August 14, 2015. When life is messy, noisy, crazy and overwhelming I click back through my photos from the last few weeks and this is what I see. Although these moments are completely random and perhaps insignificant these are the things that hold our lives together and make me smile. Rusty buckets that we have found and dug up in our paddocks. Just when we think we have found all of the treasure, the winds move a little more dirt and something else is uncovered. The blue moon on the 31.

Sun and Cloud, In and Out. Oh, you lot are so lovely! Thank you so much for your generous comments and for your votes. We continue to meander our way through the school holidays in a generally happy fashion. Do you remember them? For some reason they love to use it on the trampoline. I feared I might have built it up too muc.