Brenda Dayne

@brendadayne.bsky.social

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Host of Cast On, a podcast for knitters.🧶Lover of books, art, birds, wildflowers, heritage textiles, women and Wales. Insufferable and correct.

Vanity license plate from Washington state that reads: TOBLAVE.
A bouquet of cut garden flowers.
A merry fire crackles in the woodstove, with books and a glass of white wine on an oak table in the foreground. Woodstove weather has arrived!
A table covered in random knitting paraphernalia with a tall icy Pimm’s cocktail, in front of a pleasant fire in a woodstove. Because Wales.
Paxtons Tower, a Victorian folly near Carmarthen, sits atop a green hill against a blue summer sky.
A silver haired woman holds a plate with a Victoria Sponge cake that she baked for my birthday.
Nicely browned cheese scones with flecks of wild garlic on a silver cooling rack.
The front cover of a book entitled Handmade Lampshade, by Natalia Price-Cabrera, featuring a brightly colored lampshade against a pale grey background.
A navy blue lusterware lamp with a gold base and dark teal, elongated pagoda shade sits atop a hand-embroidered table mat, on a dark wood table.
A stone Gothic arch in the ruins of St Dogmael’s Abbey, Wales, against an impossibly blue early spring sky.
A vintage sewing table with a lift up lid and yellow silk lining, from the 1920s.
End of a farm track near Leominster, with a long view over fields and the wilds of Shropshire off in the far distance.
A large clump of snowdrops emerging from last year’s leaf mold at the base of a hedgerow, lit by late afternoon sunlight.
A small ginger cat sitting on a red sofa. He is sitting on a USB cable and appears to be plugged in.
A still image from the BBC drama Shetland showing two women in sweaters.
A staircase with white bannisters wound with winter greenery and white lights. A red and green quilt with a cardinal bird motif in the centre hangs on the wall of the staircase.
The aftermath of a storm: a very small shed on its front in a small, walled garden.
An aerial view of a whole apple pie with a delicious-looking crust of leaf shapes. 10/10 Would eat.
A country lane, a stone cottage, and view of the Welsh countryside at sunrise under a dust of snow.
Wet snow falling in a small Welsh village.
The cover of a book entitled Free and Equal, What Would a Fair Society Look Like, by Daniel Chandler.