Tag: spring

  • between weathers

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    Finally! A break in the weather. It is beginning to feel vaguely Spring-like at last. Primroses! Things in bloom on my doorstep again! Bruce and I have been making the most of the weather on our daily walks. You can see the water levels of Loch Lomond are rather high – a result of the…

  • Scottish bluebells

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    I am currently working on a bluebell-inspired design for my forthcoming YOKES collection. I am certainly not short of inspiration, as you currently can’t move for bluebells round here. Discovering these lovely flowers blooming in the woods and hills around me this Spring has really been an unexpected delight. On every walk, I seem to…

  • some Spring weather

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    It is a lovely time of year, and, as the weather starts to change I am really appreciating our new situation. Our house is in the middle of the photo above – one of five properties on a small steading, situated at about 250m above sea level. In front of the steading, to the South,…

  • transititions

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    Winter really felt interminable this year. It seemed that, for weeks I passed the same corner every day looking in vain for the snowdrops that always appear there, heralding Spring. “I don’t know what I’d do if it wasn’t for those” said one of my neighbour-buddies, indicating a single patch of struggling crocuses that provided…

  • b r b

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    Just popping in to say hello. I have been under the weather for the past week, and am now really rather unwell, and a bit grumpy to boot. I think I was getting used to my “normal” being a wee bit better than this . . . now, suddenly, I am back to feeling too…

  • River Almond Walk

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    Hiya! It is I, Bruce. Today I enjoyed an excellent Walk, so I am here to tell you all about it. This Walk begins at Cramond. Sometimes, when we come here, I run about in Firth of Forth, and dig out the fun mussels from the sand. But today there were many humans sitting on…

  • colour

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    These end-of-February days are rather grey and dreich. Here is some colour to brighten them . . . Green Red Blue The yarn is my new favourite stuff to knit with. (So soft! So richly saturated! You’ll hear more about it soon!) The swatch is one of several I’ve been making for the “Steek Sandwich”…

  • sprung

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    Surely one of the most satisfying things about any kind of journal keeping is the Gilbert White-like sense it can convey of seasonal continuity or change. At dusk yesterday, Jesus’s plum tree burst into bloom. I note that last year, after a particularly long and evil Winter, it had just started to flower on April…

  • gurning, kippers, and colour

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    For the record, I have had two really ‘bad’ days this week, during which I’ve been unable to do much because of fatigue. (Will it ever just fook off?) At times when brain and body refuse to do anything strenous, knitting and the BBC can often save me from getting too crotchety. But it is…

  • sunday

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    Did I mention just how good it is to be home? Outdoors, the blossom is finally starting to appear on Jesus’ plum tree Inside, I am stitching up my own leaves and blossoms . . . Not the neatest tent stitch you ever saw, but it requires little thought, is incredibly relaxing, and I really…

  • green. and white. and pink. and blue

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    If you are wondering why I’ve not mentioned our allotment, this is because I was hoping that ‘the situation’ that has unfolded around the allotment would have resolved itself by now. This is ‘the situation’: basically the allotment man at the council managed to double book our plot, and it was assigned to someone else.…