Tracing Rainbows

I know I am not the only one excited by last week's announcement by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. There's a new book coming in...

  O living God,  draw all the fragments of my life into the bright mosaic of your love; weave all the tangled threads of my desires into the...

The former represents how I have been recently, not sleeping well and therefore feeling fatigued. The sinus issue was still bothering me - ...

 Post came bright and early on Thursday. with K's final patch As well as the patch and notes, I discovered some lovely knitting stitch m...

It is just 6 months since Norwich Castle re-opened after the multimillion£££ restoration. We were delighted to have early view tickets, beca...

Because some of you were asking yesterday - here's the Nine Times Table Fingers Trick, I cannot find the originator of this YouTube, but...

 For Christmas, I got the London family an annual pass for MathsWorld This is a new venture, not far from Tate Gallery, with lots of activi...

My orchids are spending the winter on the bathroom windowsill [waiting, like Eliza Doolittle, for spring to creep over] If you look closely,...

I confess to being a little puzzled by this one - it is February after all. Naomi, the artist, lives in Northern Ireland, and I'm pretty...

I took a book to read in the dentist's waiting room. I had recently decided to reread this book again because I love  it. It makes me la...

Great Chieftain O' The Puddin' Race  We celebrated Burns' Night a day late, but I cooked a haggis with cream sauce, neeps and ta...

Back to the dentist for a follow up appointment. Good news, everything seems to have responded to the treatment [antibiotics, saline rinses ...

The girls were with us Saturday afternoon. Rosie had asked me to teach her to crochet. So once she was busy making chains, and Jess has real...

In the continuing saga of "things at Cornerstones which are wearing out or falling to bits", the latest casualty - my glasses. Wea...

 In the autumn I read  this lovely book  and really enjoyed it. I was delighted to receive it for Christmas, along with the instruction to ...

Today marks the end of the Week Of Prayer For Christian Unity. The chapel doors will be closed this morning, as our fellowship joins with ou...

When we bought Cornerstones in 2009, I bought some mats for the bathroom. In 2022 we changed the basin, and I modified the second pedestal m...

Have you come across this blog? Carolyn started blogging in 2009, the year we purchased Cornerstones. At that point, living in Canada, she ...

Eight weeks ago, I got  this book  from the library. I enjoyed reading it, and thought the projects looked good. But I've never been one...