The Quilt Quine

For the first time in years I had to go to a school staff meeting before the start of term and I was horrified to discover that...

It was to be expected that the past week would be a bit of an anti-climax after FOQ along with the feeling of dread as the new ...

I seemed to be so organised with my packing for my trip to Birmingham that I decided that I had so much spare tim...

The most boring part of a holiday must be sorting out the laundry and putting away all of the camping gear. No-one felt like doin...

We made an early start on Tuesday for our epic 12-hour road trip to Bath and WOMAD.  Plenty of sweets and stops helped to pass ...

    We have been enjoying a Scottish heatwave which is wonderful but it has been difficult to get anything done. I wondered what I had...

The summer holidays got off to a good start with a week of unusually lovely weather. It has probably been 10 years since we had s...

It was both a long and a short week as we hurtled towards the summer holidays. It was so cold, miserable and like November on...

    I knew I should not have allowed myself to start an epic novel series such as "Game of Thrones" - it proved to be highly addic...

      Apart from teaching pretty demanding infant classes this week, I seemed to pick long overdue tasks such as sorting out Fenella's b...

   With 4 days in school I did not have much time to work on anything at all which is why my single day off on Friday that did not progress ...

Because I eventually managed to book up overnight accommodation in Bath and the Yurt for the WOMAD festival, I thought it might b...

      Three days of teaching does not allow much time for quilting projects but the schools are desperate for relief cover and the fun...

    When I was not teaching in school this week, I spent untold hours working on the Quilted Coracle. I used a leather punch to make holes...