fourth edition

First, the obligatory “It is Spring!” photo. Of course I am convinced we will soon see a return to snowy gloom and doom, but I do enjoy being able to walk outside wearing less than five layers.
Secondly, a sock. My first pair were a bonafide success and so I think I need [...]

Pop culture and I have an on-off relationship. I mostly attribute this to growing up in Nowheresville, Denmark, in a family obsessed by 1940s and 1950s American popular entertainment (think Frank Sinatra, Vincente Minnelli films and the Great American Songbook), so when I went to school and was surrounded by kids immersed in current music, [...]

People’s reaction to my sock knitting has been very amusing.
One afternoon I was meeting up with a couple of friends and we were merrily knitting along when a woman came up and said very slowly: “Oh. You are. All. Knitting. Socks.” We weren’t, actually, but I appreciated the stunned tone to the woman’s voice.
And how [...]

This has been the coldest winter in Scotland since the early 1960s. So I have not just been imagining things nor have I become obsessed by that most British of things: the weather. It has been bloody cold and, despite today’s sunshine, it continues to be cold. I am so, so ready for spring to [...]

Life itself has caught up with me, so I am running behind on important things such as answering emails, sorting paperwork and, well, doing the dishes. This weekend I have allowed myself some time off and will be cooped up in bed with books, hot tea and a warm duvet. I have finally accepted this [...]

Just a link to another weblog today, but it is a link I encourage you to click. A fellow knitter-in-Scotland, Kate, suffered a stroke some time ago and this is how she is experiencing the recovery process.
Without going into too many details, I can relate to her words and her post made me think quite [...]

When I started university many, many, many moons ago I fell in with the wrong crowd. Looking back, I can see how it happened. The nice girl living next door to me in student hall invited me in for tea and soon after she was offering to “lend” me things. “Nothing bad was going to [...]

Goodbye Clandestine sock pattern. Hello Spring Fern pattern. So much better. I’m now playing catch up.
Watching the Olympics here brings home that I no longer live in Scandinavia. The Finland – Russia ice hockey game was just mentioned in passing, the cross-skiing events barely gets a look in (Denmark has always been crap but we’d [...]

My first birthday present was given to me today by David (a day early!). I was so thrilled when I realised it was a ticket to see Mr Rufus Wainwright live later this year. I have seen Rufus on three earlier occasions, but this one will be just him and a piano. Cor.
Now to wait [...]

Lady on the left? My great-grandmother. She would have been ninety-four today.
The photo was taken in the early 1950s outside her cottage and she is with two of her sons, K and T.
I have several photos of her; my other favourite is from the 1930s when she was approached by a travelling salesman who wanted [...]