Nana Time (subtitle: coaxing meals from near-empty pantries)

Anticipating my granddaughter’s sleepover, I assumed we’d go out for sushi dinner last night and then out for bacon and eggs or pancakes this morning.  I’d underestimated how much she’d been looking forward to playing…

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Christmas Tree Joys, Memories, and Kondo-culling

I spent a lovely few hours with my friend Alison in her studio last week, building up the layers to make Christmas images like the one above. I’d missed the last class in our Watercolours…

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London Surprises — He knitted their socks!

To acknowledge that there has been little knitting content here lately is to overstate the case. While many knitters do dial back in the summer, that’s not usually my practice; if anything, I knit more…

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New Year, new camera, new knits, new courses

Today’s photos are brought to you courtesy of my new camera, a Nikon D40X, which I hope gradually to master, eventually perhaps getting beyond the Automatic setting to take full advantage of its abilities. For…

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Scenes from a lovely day

I’m going to show you a few scenes from our very happy Christmas Day. First, in case you’re interested, the Christmas Eve tourtière was fabulous — we got home from Victoria about 6, I rolled…

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