Oh, I loved William S Preston Esq and Theodore Logan back in the day. Waaayyy back in the day when I was in my twenties.  You can’t beat a bit of Bill and Ted to lift your mood, to make you forget you’re in your … Continue reading Bill and Ted Face the Music (and save Life, the Universe and just about everything else really)

Oh, the frabjous joy when you (well, me) discover the wonders of a new knitting technique.  I feel the knitting Gods must have guided my hands when, on a day in the not-so-distant past, I landed upon Harry Potter knitting charts on Ravelry.  I think … Continue reading Double Knitting a Harry Potter Scarf

Blog. Immediately after publishing the post previous to this one, a WordPress notification informed me that I'd just made my 200th post, an anniversary I was completely unaware of, otherwise I'd have announced the fact on said previous post to much fanfare. Since I started … Continue reading 200 Blog Posts and 2 Bears

*Absolutely laden with spoilers in Vicious, one of Ms Schwab's books. My pandemic induced reading marathon continues.  My relentless search for ghostly and strange literary fodder recently led me to Victoria Schwab (or V E Schwab as she also likes to be known.)  I’m four … Continue reading The Delightful but Dark Victoria Schwab

My new-found passion for Gothic fiction continues apace.  I’ve just finished The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements, set in the mid-17th century, a time when your average local yokel firmly believed in witches and wizardry, alongside an equally firm belief that spouting the Lord’s Prayer, … Continue reading The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements featuring Birds by Anouk

Blog. I have spent several days’ time travelling, without once leaving the places you are most likely to find me, i.e. stretched out on the couch or propped up by pillows on my bed (I do a lot of lying about.)  How did I achieve … Continue reading Gothic Fiction and the Covid Jab

During the early 20th century there was much tech-scepticism. The belief that experimental Science could be a force for good; that Science (not God) would most likely save us, was turned on its head by the likes of Aldous Huxley and C S Lewis (in … Continue reading A Short Piece on the Enabling Side-Effects of Technology

Months before my Go Pod arrived (I refer to the Pod as mine, since the husband had to be inveigled by all and any means into purchasing the thing) I began knitting a blanket for it. You see, my first instinct, regarding anything that remotely … Continue reading Making things for my Go Pod

The Space Trilogy by C S Lewis Yes Blog. Your virtual eyes do not deceive you and, if you are anything like me (which you unavoidably are) you will be utterly confounded and gobsmacked (a word Lewis would never have used) to discover that Lewis, … Continue reading The Space Trilogy

A couple of months after the onset of Covid, I became obsessed with ways of travelling about which would be self-contained and therefore safe from The Virus.  Turns out many, many other people had had the same idea.  I likewise developed an obsession with YouTube … Continue reading The Go Pod