Translated it means YarnOver SleepOver 2014. The weekend just past, I was one of 10 organizers of a knitting retreat at the Fern Resort in Orillia, ON. Twenty seven knitters came to learn, laugh, love and laze. It was awesome!! Here are a few pictures – Above Mary Pat is teaching the purled German cast-on. […]
My husband has been trolling the site Homeaway.com for an apartment to rent for a week in Paris this summer. Last year we rented an apartment for a week in Rome and then one for another week in Cinque Terre. This combination worked so well that this June we have decided to spend a week in
I have to catch up on a few posts in the blog-a-day challenge for 2013, so I hope that you don’t mind the travelogue. Yesterday I posted about starting a two-day mini vacation in Muskoka, a cottage area about 2+ hours’ drive from Toronto. We decided on this “impromptu” weekend away mainly, because our bathroom was
I haven’t posted in a a few days because my husband and I went away for the weekend. Since we weren’t going to have a functioning bathroom until Monday, we decided that we had to make other plans. This all began last January, well before the tiles started to fall off the wall in the
I decided to write about this because I wanted to make sure that I didn’t lose the websites. So this is sort of a selfish reason for sharing, but it also looks like a lot of fun!! There are apparently a number of websites that link people together for the purpose of house sitting. That
Actually I have the book 1,000 places to see before you die and the book 1,000 foods to eat before you die, or something like that. I have said before that I’m a sucker for a list. Anyway Anita-Clare Field posted this site http://www.listchallengeapp.com/travellistchallenge/ to my FB wall and I was intrigued. Sagrada Familia, Barcelona It’s
Well it’s “hump day” and my lunch for today has been cancelled so I am a little disorganized having to re-group. As a result, this is a short post. Phantom cheque I am always fascinated by “alien body parts,” mainly hands and feet. I wrote the other day of being drawn to a post about
I always like to record my first impressions of something new, because so often we assimilate and what seemed so different once, too often becomes commonplace. It’s fun to look back. Roman Ruins 1. I was surprised by the number of people I saw smoking. More young people than middle aged were smoking and more
Both nights that we ate out in Florence, we ate at the sidewalk restaurant, Za Za. It is perched on a corner of the square which houses the huge glass-roofed food market. This market, in turn, is surrounded by the umbrella-ed stalls of merchants of every description. Firenza must be the leather capital of the
