Archive for February 2011 | Monthly archive page
Tweet 1. Get your hands on the book … 2. Choose the recipe … this is very hard because almost EVERYTHING sounds utterly delicious, so get your child to choose … 3. Put an apron on your child and set her to work … 4. Offer to help when she grumbles about all the work [...]
Tweet This is one of my favourite dresses. It is the only one, from the mid 1980s when our wardrobes were full of pretty dropped waisted dresses, that is still being worn regularly and with much pleasure. Oh those were the days :-) Being in a household of girls – with many aunties – we [...]
Tweet Well … as I sit here at my desk, lamp on, surrounded by huge tomes of anatomy, clinical skills, and the politics of childbirth, it dawns on me that I’ve not yet finished my first WEEK of university and already I feel a wee bit overwhelmed. Everybody said it is a huge course. Everybody [...]
Tweet Well … it has only taken me almost two years – good thing teenagers don’t grow as fast as little ones! – but Abby’s pink, orange and blue striped poncho is finally done. I knitted up that front in a flash – put in fast and furious hours – then took my long sweet [...]
Tweet I’m pleased to announce that after a week of feverish knitting – where I pretended that if I did not speak about the knitting, offer the knitting up for inspection, or utter any, any, any explanation for the knitting, Julian would not realise I was knitting, let alone knitting for him – I finished [...]
Tweet Here I sit, computer on lap, camera sitting in front of me, the photos of my family’s weekend streaming down a narrow white cord. I sort, crop, fiddle (amateurishly) with the saturation and exposure, and name. An enormous number are stored on our hard drive. A small number make their way onto my blog. [...]
Tweet :: light the lamps :: :: ponder a jigsaw with Abby :: :: set wild mushroom and barley soup a-simmering atop the stove (recipe from here ) :: :: bake a custard in Nanny Dougall’s old bowl (recipe below) :: :: wind a fresh ball of Malabrigo on Nanny Cottam’s old Toyota yarn winder [...]
Tweet We Boots are FINALLY all at home for the first time in 2011. Thank goodness for that. How we’ve missed each other. To celebrate, we ate an early supper on Sunday and headed down to the beach for a nice long walk in the cool, late summer sun. We’d not been to this beach [...]
Tweet It’s not really meant to be a stretchy bag – but being a crocheted bag, it has certainly proved to be stretchy. Of course, this can count as a feature – I’m sure we could fit watermelons in here and the bag would just keep on stretching. However, it may mean, amendments may have [...]