The Curious Mind
Are you full of questions? Do you always want to know what happens if you do this or that? What would happen if you took that path in life, or this one? I’m a curious person. In weaving, that’s a great thing if you want to stretch yourself. I’m a sample queen...
The Wonder of Weaving
Weaving instills this incredible sense of wonder in me. Part of it is the creation of something useful and/or beautiful out of simple thread. Part of it is the huge variety that weaving engenders. Yet another part is the connection between peoples from all ages,...
The Power of the Subconscious Mind
We all know that the subconscious is a powerful thing. Something I experienced today, and many times in the past, shows just how much it works in everyday things. I’m doing sample weaving at the moment, with lots of plain weaving and overshot picks. I have a...
Marks of Passage
This is the time of year for the local farmers to wait for a couple of days of fine weather to dry the grass crop and then cut and turn and collect for hay. We’ve just had a few days of glorious weather which has led to them working flat out to get the hay in before...
What a Difference a Day Makes
We’ve just fetched my son home from university, and have been trying to squeeze a quart into a pint pot – successfully, I might add – and it got me to thinking about life changes and how things can pootle along for a long time without anything happening, and then...
Seeing Things with Fresh Eyes
Several things have conspired towards today’s blog topic, the way life sometimes does. Firstly we had a summer barbeque which forced me to look at our house and garden through another’s eyes – actually around 35 others’ eyes – and has prompted a makeover of the...
Zeitgeist amendments
I was so keen to get Zeitgeist published that I forgot to add the hyperlinks! So here is the relevant section with the hyperlinks added, with my humble apologies to Vibeke, Agnes, ETN and the musuems! This is being brought home to me particularly at the moment as I...
Zeitgeist
You know how there sometimes seems to be a time when many things relating to the same subject seem to slot into place – whether it is a political mood such as we saw in the US and in the UK and elsewhere during this recession, or a vogue for an artform such as glass...
Balancing Act 2
You know I talked about the 80/20 rule in a previous posting – 80% of your work is done in 20% of your time – well, this is not just over the course of one day. It also extends to my week, or my month, or even my year. This week has just been an amazingly productive...
Balancing Act
Imeant to post this on 13th May, but somehow didn't quite get round to it. So here it is a little late, but still relevant! Quite frequently, I find myself out of balance with myself. How do we achieve balance between earning a living, looking after our health and...
Advice from the Top of the World
I’m a tremendous admirer of people with big ambitions like explorers and adventurers. They put themselves on the line, not expecting anyone else to do the dirty work for them, and they either succeed or fail. There’s no hiding or fudging your mistakes when you are...
The Kindness of Strangers
With a title like that, you would be forgiven for thinking that I am going to talk about Kate Adie, BBC reporter extraordinaire, as that’s the title of her autobiography. That may come once I’ve read the book, but in the meantime, last weekend, I visited the Stroud...