It's blackberry season, which means summer won't be staying for much longer. There are blackberry vines that grow along the side of our road by the bus stop and I've been watching the berries ripen every afternoon on my walk up the hill. No-one seemed interested in harvesting them. But the other day I 'helped'…

Hello! I finished another knitting project since I last wrote here, a whole shawl even. In truth, much of it was knitted over the end of the summer holiday, just before work and school started up again. It's the Hedgewitch Shawl by Canadian designer Nat Raedwulf and there was a fun knitalong happening over midwinter/midsummer…