garden stuff

Garden

We've been lucky with the weather over the last week and have had plenty of sunshine which has meant lots of garden time. Most of the raised beds are planted up now – just successional sowings of carrots and french beans to go in a few weeks. Each of the 1msq beds have polythene fronts and are covered on the other sides with insect netting – it really saves time in picking off caterpillars and keeps off the slugs too. Everything that I'm growing inside is either self-pollinating or doesn't need pollination. It seems to work and and everything is growing well.

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It's been good to potter in the garden and the half term week has been fairly relaxed so far.

Garden2

There's even been a little knitting going on and a little crochet too and my saggy, baggy bag is almost finished. I definitely need to improve my technique and maybe I'll use a smaller hook in future. Still, it's been fun learning something new. I'm off now to make a cup of tea and go and sit in the sun and watch the children bounce and splash!

general stuff

hello!

Just popping in to say a quick hello.

Us2 

Thanks for the good wishes for last week, Toby's school play went really well and we coped with the change in routine (just about). It's now school half term break and so we're hoping for a relaxed week – so far so good! Enjoy your week wherever you are!

crafts & knitting · general stuff

An upside down week

This week is one of the strangest in our family's year. It's the week of Toby's school play which means all routines are stood on their head. From tomorrow he'll go to school from 4pm til 9pm instead of the usual 9am – 3pm and he'll take part in the annual school play each evening. It's challenging to him to say the least but last year he coped pretty well (fingers crossed for this year being the same!) and the play that the school put on is amazing especially when you consider the diverse and very severe disabilities of all the students. Everyone takes part from the youngest in the nursery at 3-4 years to the oldest at 18 -  19 years old and they all do their best according to their abilities. I'll take my tissues as usual and be prepared for the stinging hands that follow all the clapping!

I'm hoping that the sunny weather that joined us for the weekend will continue so that Toby can happily play out in the garden during the daytime and I can sit and watch him while finishing off my crochet bag – just the straps and trim to go now.

Bag

I'm pretty happy with it although it's going to need lining and my join
is very scrappy – still crochet seems to be more forgiving than knitting in that sense and it doesn't really notice (from a distance at least!)

Crochetbag

True to form I've also kicked off another crochet project (on the basis that you can't be a proper crochet-er without having a few granny squares under your belt) I hope to add to these from this pattern and make a cushion somewhere down the line.

Grannies

I'm really enjoying getting to grips with crochet but my first love will always be my knitting! Talking of which I'm off to make the most of the last quiet day of the week and finish off a bunny or two. Enjoy your week wherever you are.