Yes I know! I said I would be back and posting regularly but you know how it is, best intentions and all that sort of stuff. My last blog entry proved that I haven't got the foggiest idea how to put photographs into my posts so that is on my list of things to do. I've been somewhat buried under the fine detail of coping with four children. It doesn't seem five minutes since Christmas and yet here I am on the Easter holiday and I'm trying to remember just what has been going on over the last few weeks. What with piano lessons, violin lessons, swimming lessons (until the pool developed a leak), school trips, five a side football tournaments, boys brigade, girls brigade, church events, and just the day to day business of preparing lunch boxes, reading with the kids, ensuring homework is done and just getting them to school on time and remembering to collect them in the afternoon. Where has it gone? I've also been helping a friend move house, been to London to see the terracotta warrior exhibition at the British Museum - absolutely fabulous - and started the next component of my psychology degree course. This year I'm doing child development and as I've received a Grade II Pass for the last two courses I've done I'm feeling under pressure to make sure I do as well this year. I should do well with child development, I have four children for goodness' sake!
I've been ravelling as well over the last few weeks. What a good way to organise everything! I've been merrily photographing partially knitted items that have been sitting in the cupboard for months, cones of yarn from under the bed, magazines and balls of wool from all over the house. Everytime I come across something that needs referencing I take some pictures. I'm getting some very funny looks from hubby and filling up my memory card so will need to deal with that. Although I'm not completely up to date, I have a huge amount of stuff that still needs to be photographed and entered on to my database, I'm more organised now than I have been before and can actually plan ahead more. No more sitting there thinking what do I knit next, or where was that pattern I liked, or what was I going to do with this yarn as I know I'd seen something I thought would be ideal. Excellent.
I also have a new hobby lined up - sock knitting. I have treated myself to some sock yarn from the Knitting Parlour (I'm visiting my mother in law for the week so have been in the vicinity and I always like to pop in and get something whilst I'm here). I'm determined to see what all the fuss is about and find out if I get addicted like others seem to be. I'd also like to take part in a future sock wars so need to learn how to do it. I'm going to have a go at this magic loop method. Just the one sock to begin with but if I can cope I'll try for two. Now, no laughing at the results if I post some photos! Actually, I'll try that separately.
Saturday, 12 April 2008
Thursday, 17 January 2008
What date is it?!
Is it really? Well what have I been doing for so long, its been weeks since I was last here? The fact is I've been both ill and busy. Autumn saw me rushed off my feet as I had an Open University exam in October, I then started my next course which ran over the christmas period into January (I've just completed that one) and now the text books have turned up for my next course which starts in a couple of weeks time. Plus, I've been poorly for what feels like forever. Most of December was spent with a sore throat that lasted two and a half weeks, which then developed into a heavy chesty cough which lasted all over the christmas holiday and which I am now only just starting to be free of. I actually can't remember vast chunks of the holiday as I felt so rough. I'm glad its all over now and I can move on but I was so busy with nativity plays and concerts etc. My four children have all had major social lives just recently and I feel this has been on a collision course with my attempts to get out there again and have a bit of a life for myself. I wasn't going to leave it this long before I posted again as I do want this to be a regular place for me to visit, but seriously December was just bizarre. I actually didn't write a single christmas card which I feel guilty about especially as I had wanted to make my own cards this year. I also didn't make many of the decorations that I had lined up to create in the run up to Christmas. I've decided to make one or two items per month this year so I should get things done that way. I have several things I started two years ago and beyond that still need finishing so this is a year to catch up and get things done. I even have a resolution - New Year, New Me. With me being so organised for the year ahead, what can possibly go wrong?
Sunday, 9 December 2007
Wednesday, 5 December 2007
Monday, 3 December 2007
I'm also an allotment blog by the way
I'm sure you all know the tune - "If I had a little mattock, I'd mattock in the morning, I'd mattock in the evening, all over this land".
My most recent purchase to try and get this plot into shape. A fork just won't do it as the ground is too hard. My new and much loved mattock has certainly told the soil who is boss so the right piece of equipment for the job certainly works wonders. Just don't stand behind me if I start swinging it ok.
Pippin searches for the perfect box
Pippin likes a comfy box but has to experiment before he finds perfection.
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