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Weekend knitting projects – knot top hat

easy peasy hat

Time is flying past – where has January gone? – and there are babies that are due to arrive very shortly that I am knitting for so when I saw this pattern on Ravelry for an Easy Peasy hat it had some attractions, not least because it allowed me to carry on with my . . . → Read More: Weekend knitting projects – knot top hat

Signs I am turning into my Mother No3

I have just spent 40 minutes flicking through the Lakeland catalogue

 

With a cup of tea

 

Worse than that -I have popped down the corners of some of the pages to remind me that I need proper leather food and more cleaning stuff in my life

 

Help

The Friday Rant Club – the double whammy penalty of part time work

The Friday Rant Club

Yes I know part time work has made my life a million times better – I see more of the girls, I get less resentful when I have a week like this one and don’t see them for days in a row and life has a one day reset button.  It is a good . . . → Read More: The Friday Rant Club – the double whammy penalty of part time work

Name that chicken!

New chickens

We have just taken delivery of three beautiful new chickens to add to our existing and definitely not pretty pair, Betty and Ginger.  Hard to describe how not pretty Betty is but put it this way, she started off life as a chick known as Ugly…

 

 

Our three new girls are . . . → Read More: Name that chicken!

Tah dah – the Far Too Big Blanket is done!

The Far Too Big Blanket

I’ve written a few posts in the past about the granny stripe blanket I have had on the go (here, here and here for starters) – turns out that it is a perfect lesson in not biting off more than you can chew and certainly in not thinking that another foot or so of width . . . → Read More: Tah dah – the Far Too Big Blanket is done!

Is it time for us to start trusting our parenting instincts?

pile of books

Walk into any bookshop, have a browse around Amazon or a quick search on the internet and you’ll find a long queue of people ready and willing to tell you the correct way to raise your child.  They can solve any ‘problem’ in a week and each has their own set of rules and . . . → Read More: Is it time for us to start trusting our parenting instincts?

A bit of blog introspection

Whilst I’ve been off having my bloggers block, I’ve been doing a fair amount of reading of other blogs – nothing like reading great blogs to ensure that you don’t hit publish on a post anytime soon I find…

 

What it has made me do is to think about what I am writing . . . → Read More: A bit of blog introspection

Every cloud has a silver lining… or something

As you may have noticed, things around here have been a bit of a misery-fest.  2011 did its absolute best to get what had been a fairly rubbish year to go out with a bang.

 

Thanks for that 2011 – really appreciated your efforts.

 

And then, despite having very low expectations, 2012 . . . → Read More: Every cloud has a silver lining… or something

Reveal – snugly ribbed blanket

Ribbed blanket

I’m rather impressed how this turned out given the idea came from a scarf pattern that I wondered if it might make a nice throw to curl up in when we got the house back

 

And as you do I then ended up buying a small stash of wool and setting to work.

. . . → Read More: Reveal – snugly ribbed blanket

Breaking through the blogger’s block

 

Sorry I haven’t posted much lately – there’s been various stuff going on that has cluttered up my mind and made me struggle to work out what I want to write and what, when I’ve written it, I can post on here. We are back in the house – it is probably 95% . . . → Read More: Breaking through the blogger’s block

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