Today my fluffy baby turns two years old. TWO! I can’t believe how quickly the time has gone. It doesn’t seem that long ago that he was tiny like this. Today is a Bank Holiday which means the weather is awful (no surprise there) so my plan to take him for along forest walk is probably not going to happen. Though to be honest it’s been hard moving him at all because yesterday we took him to a family BBQ…
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Black Forest 100° water – 4 mins – with/without milk Ingredients: Sri Lankan black tea, cocoa shells, hibiscus, apple pieces, elderberies, raspberry pieces,strawberry pieces, blackberries, cranberry pieces(cranberry, sugar, rice flour, vanilla pieces, sunflower and calendula petals, blackberry leaves ~ It’s been 84 years since I’ve had a nice cup of tea! Ok, whatever, I exaggerate, but it really does feel like it’s been forever. Usually the warm summer weather is never enough to turn me off tea, but apparently this…
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Well I turned 31 at the weekend. Which feels weird. The actual act of turning 31 one doesn’t bother me (and I had a very nice day of it) but I’m struggling to come to terms with the fact it’s already been a year since my last birthday. A year. A whole year. And I’ve done… nothing. Things have happened, of course. My best friends wedding, my road trip to Scotland (slightly disappointing as it was) and that time I……
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Yep I visited the HP Studio Tour again. But once again I had a valid excuse in the shape of a visiting friend from France (HELLO SKY! *waves* ) and the whole day was very good fun. The earlier half of the day was spent visiting Hatfield House and then trying to avoid getting soaked in the rain, then 5pm rolled around and it was off to Hogwarts.
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When I first started knitting I went and bought a lot of patterns without really thinking, including this Voodoo Doll pattern by Susan Claudino. Once I opened up the pattern and saw the whole ‘small diameter knitting’ thing I just panicked and never looked at it again. But recently I decided to give it a try…. mostly to distract myself from the monotony of knitting my Seacoast sweater (endless stockinette is boring, you guys. so boring.) and this little guy…
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