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Dictaphone bliss and YouTube heaven!

One of my birthday presents this year was a dictaphone that I can put on a cord round my neck and take with me everywhere I go.  What a brilliant present!! Thanks, Chris!  I now have a way to save my thoughts as and when I think them, especially when out walking with...

Know Yourself

I originally wrote this entry a year ago, and was thinking about this very subject this week when my son and I were having a philosophical discussion on “how do you know when you know yourself?”  In trying to put down in words what we were discussing, I...

The Sunday Spell

I know I’ve said it before, but Sunday is a good weaving day for me.  I don’t know what it is about Sunday that makes it feel different from the other days in the week, but I often find I get into my weaving and that it flows easily on a Sunday.  Today was a good one...

More Random Ruminations

I was threading up my loom this morning, getting ready to weave my Complex Weavers Collapse, Pleat and Bump Study Group samples for our annual sample exchange, and I was listening to a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 5 performed by the Polish National...

Kuwait visit

I am sitting in my hotel room overlooking the bay towards the old Kuwait City.  Through the heat haze and the dust raised by the building works in the city, mingled with the higher dust raised by troops in the desert, I can see the murky outlines of some stunning high...