Socktember 2026

Is it September?  No … it’s SOCKTEMBER! September always feel like a new start kind of month for me.  It’ll be ingrained through years of “back to school” whether for me when I was...

September Socks

I have always felt that September feels like a time for starting something new. The summer is over, the autumn equinox is approaching and in the last days of warmth before the trees start...

Monthly Musing – August 2026 – A change in the weather

It’s rained most days over the last week or so.  Some days it’s been a fine misty drizzle; other days it’s been bouncing rain accompanied by rolling thunder and flashes of lightning.  Mostly, it’s...

Emergency Socks

Emergency Socks?  What are those?! They might not be what you think – they’re not socks that need to be knitted for a last minute gift or if you’ve run out of socks to...

Socktember 2026 countdown

It’s Bank Holiday weekend in the UK which means that the end of August has arrived – September is nearly here! This year on the Winwick Mum blog, September will be known as SOCKTEMBER and...

August Friday

Hello, hello, and happy Friday to you!  I do hope that everything is well with your world – the news this last week has been so sad with reports of people’s houses burning with...