Month: April 2026

  • Knitting Bullshit

    Knitting Bullshit

    My theme today is Knitting Bullshit and before I begin, I had better explain to you what I understand bullshit to be. In what follows, “bullshit” is used very much in the sense that Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt describes in his seminal essay, On Bullshit (1986; 2005). For Frankfurt, bullshit is an utterance with “a…

  • Knitting Wester Ross

    Knitting Wester Ross

    The book is out, all pre-ordered copies have been shipped (thank you, Kate C and Kendall) and club members can access the full e-book in your Ravelry libraries. Knitting Wester Ross is now available to purchase in the KDD shop and by way of celebration, I thought I’d reproduce the book’s introduction here today. This…

  • “Peppermintstick”

    “Peppermintstick”

    Tulip season has arrived – hurrah! I anticipate several happy weeks, in which I savour and enjoy every variety that I carefully chose and planted last November. I have several lasagne-style tulip pots at the front of the house, as well as a sizeable display round the back . . . . . . and…

  • Concrete Legacies

    Concrete Legacies

    We are anticipating the publication of Knitting Wester Ross today, and the team is ready (and waiting) in the KDD warehouse to begin the process of shipping the book out to club members, before putting it on general sale. This interim – between the completion of a book and its publication – is often a…

  • Cornish break

    Cornish break

    Hello! We are home after a short break in south-east Cornwall: a beautiful part of the world which neither Tom nor I had visited before. We enjoyed some lovely spring weather and several long days of great walking, along different sections of the south-west coastal path. I became slightly obsessed with Cornish Hedges – the…