I love making crazy patchwork blankets. Which is a good thing, because every time somebody gets pregnant - and I seem to know a lot of r...

Once upon a time, I used to have loads of handbags. As in, a heap of them. A veritable plethora. Big ones, small ones, gorgeously impractica...

  I've had a tough month. We went home to Ireland again and once again came back with a bronchial infection (baby) and the 'flu (...

Happy Easter to all who celebrated it. We did, primarily with large amounts of cake: "You know what?" my husband said tho...

I'm a nut magnet. Nutty people love me. It's not - as we say in Ireland - off the ground that I licked it. My mother is a nut mag...

I've always loved the Cathedral Rose pattern , published by Annie's Attic. So much so, that I even bought a copy of it... but althou...

There's a thin line between lunacy and lucidity. Most people sit on one side or the other, others wobble down the middle, occasionally t...

Thank you all very much for your lovely comments about my last post. I'm glad I made some of you laugh. This post, however, is on a more...

Goodness me. What have we been up to? Well, the Limpet and I headed off to Ireland for a fortnight to surprise my father on the occasion of...

This is my limpet: He's in his favourite place, strapped to me, his head bobbling back and forth, trying to look over my shoulder ...

This post will involve chests. But it will also contain biscuits - or cookies, if you will. You've been warned. Anyway, as my...

Today is the Memorial Day for the Victims of the National-Socialist Regime . As a foreigner in Germany, especially because I live so close t...

Today I used a few minutes of baby sleep to do whirlwind tidy-up, putting away a couple of errant Christmas decorations that had somehow man...

You know it's been a long time since your last post when regular readers start to worry (hello to Cathy at Playing Hooky :-) Oh dear. ...

I am terribly sorry, my dears. Such a long time since my last post :-( I really enjoyed reading your lovely comments and they certainly help...

Thank you all very much for your good advice, kind wishes and finger-crossing! I'll be in touch in person when my new boss decides to s...

A card my sister made for me. And spookily accurate, to boot. Except for the shoes - I couldn't get my swollen feet into those. You...

(This is another pregnancy post. Feel free to click away if you came for the crafts.) I'm now in my 39th week, i.e. 38 weeks plus s...

Oooh, it's September. Even though the sun's shining and it's warm, there's a chill in the air and the sunshine is slightly ....

This was a gift from my friend, Pat. Sadly, I am not this graceful and lithe in pregnancy. But we can pretend. In my state of With Child...