I came across Louise Crowther's My Knitted Doll book quite a while ago, whilst searching endlessly for knitted toy patterns, that would potentially scream at me from my laptop screen: 'BUY ME!. See how well designed, cute and cuddly I am" Louise's doll book passed me by. In … Continue reading A couple of dolls and a little cotton rabbit

Blog.  It is New Year’s day 2024 and I sit here, having missed out on the Christmas I would have had, had I not been blighted by blasted Covid.  Beforehand, I had been somewhat in the Xmas spirit, due to various choir events that took … Continue reading It’s 2024

Day 9, 19th July – Reykjavik Aurora docked at Reykjavik for two days.  We’d booked an excursion here and boarded the coach at 1.30 pm.  A great black monster of a thing.  On finding our seats, I noticed a huge, thick crack going across the … Continue reading Sailing into a time warp 6

Day 7, 17th July – Akureyri This was a momentous day. The day we first set foot on Icelandic soil.  The husband had wanted to visit Iceland ever since watching Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a film we’d both loved.  The film … Continue reading sailing into a time warp 5

Blog, a calamity occurred. My 10+ years old Dell laptop finally bit the digital dust. This faithful (and second-hand) laptop had served me well until a couple of days ago when I was suddenly presented with ‘the black screen of death.’  My screen periodically shut … Continue reading sailing into a time warp 4

Day Four, 14th July – Alesund Before continuing with this post, I thought I’d post a pic of Aurora as we found her on our first few days; that is, we were certain we were wandering around a ghost ship, in the manner of the … Continue reading sailing into a time warp 3

Day Two, 12th July – Sea Day The aforementioned Brontes’ biography I’d brought along was a 37-hour read according to my Kindle, a very similar timeframe to this meandering rubbish I should think.  However, should you flag, pause a while to imagine how many hours … Continue reading Sailing into a time warp 2

Blog, this will be a long one.  I think the internet would deem it TLTR, but it’s just between you and me really, so I can look back some day and think ‘oh, that’s what happened,’ or ‘doesn’t time fly.’  I’ll break it up into … Continue reading Sailing into a time warp

Frances O’Connor’s bodice ripping, corset stripping, crinoline crunching smorgasbord of strange Gothic goings on, up on the Yorkshire moors, is currently showing on Sky movies. Frances O’Connor is an actress (turned writer/director) who I very much liked some twenty odd years ago, appearing in Bedazzled, … Continue reading emily

Tuesday 9th May 10.00 am - our expedition begins! We have stowed as much as we can in the car and the rest is in Pod.  We are good for five days in pretty well every commodity, but hope to replenish stocks, should that be … Continue reading This being the journal of our go pod expedition 2023