kitchen poetry 2

October 7, 2011 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)24 Comments

Crisp green apples,

so pleasing to the eye,

but now we're going to chop them up

and pop them in a pie.

poem by Amy & Julie

With thanks to Ali for the inspiration and our neighbours for the generous supply of bramley apples – their tree has had a bumper crop this year.

Hope you all have a good weekend – we'll be wood walking, tidying up the garden and eating apple pie!

Wow, an actual sleep over!

October 3, 2011 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)38 Comments

Thanks so much for all the good wishes for Amy's birthday and for sending me your spare good luck for her birthday sleepover. It went really well, we all had a lot of fun (me included) and the girls surprised me no end by all being asleep by midnight – which meant I had a better night's sleep than I usually get with Toby (who had gone off with his Dad to spend the night at Nana & Grandpa's).

Whilst the girls were giving each other makeovers, eating pizza and watching dance movies I was left alone quietly crocheting up in my bedroom and so I now have 15 squares in 'me old china' blanket.

I am so much happier with the more subdued colour scheme – not everyone's taste for sure, but most definitely what I had in mind for this project.

All in all a happy weekend at the Williams house!

general stuff

last days in the garden

September 30, 2011 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)24 Comments

We've had some wonderful weather here for the last few days – a real indian summer. Toby enjoys the garden so much when it's warm and dry but because he can't bear to touch wet surfaces and won't wear shoes in the garden, it won't be very long before he isn't able to play outside anymore. So we've been making the most of this last blast of summer and filling the time after school with as many bubbles and as much bouncing as is possible!

We've even stayed out until sundown and been rewarded with some beautiful skies

I do hope that this winter isn't going to be too harsh and we get some more bubbly, bouncy days to tide us over until spring arrives.

Have a lovely weekend wherever you are and please send any spare luck my way for tomorrow evening as I'm hosting Amy's 12th birthday party sleepover. I have a feeling sleep may not actually feature much!