summer break

July 15, 2009 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)40 Comments

Well, we're in the last few days before the school summer holidays start and I'm busy trying to make sure I've got enough activities planned to keep my two lovelies busy and me sane! As we're having another staycation this year I've decided to put together a little summer holiday pack for Amy stuffed with colouring books, new pens, reading books and of course some knitting!

I've also come up with a secret weapon – Mummy's fun vouchers!

The idea being that she can exchange these with me for fun activities throughout the 6 week break. You're welcome to print some out if they're of any use to you (although obviously you provide the treats!) the pdf file is here or of course you could make your own, tailored to your children.

Hopefully the weather will be kind to us and then Toby will be happy in the garden with lego and the paddling pool and I'll sneak in a little knitting time in the sun. Hope you have a great summer wherever you are and whatever you do. I'll pop in when I'm able, see you soon x

general stuff

Hedgie winners

July 2, 2009 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)20 Comments

Thanks so much to everyone who took the time to enter and for all of the kind comments about the hedgehogs. The random number generator has been invaluable again and has come up with the following numbers for the 2 winners of the knitted hedgies:

190: Posted by: D. | June
30, 2009 at 10:15 PM
213: Posted by: Sally | July
01, 2009 at 12:10 AM

And the following 20 winners of patterns:

22: Posted by: Jo|June
30, 2009 at 01:20 PM
33: Posted by: Mari
| June
30, 2009 at 01:38 PM
38: Posted by: sheila | June
30, 2009 at 01:45 PM
45: Posted by: Ewa
Evans | June
30, 2009 at 02:01 PM
63: Posted by: Mama
Urchin | June
30, 2009 at 02:33 PM
84: Posted by: Anna G | June
30, 2009 at 03:40 PM
87: Posted by: adrienne | June
30, 2009 at 03:45 PM
135: Posted by: Lone
| June
30, 2009 at 06:38 PM
143: Posted by: annette
| June
30, 2009 at 07:03 PM
148: Posted by: Janet | June
30, 2009 at 07:41 PM
160: Posted by: Carolyn
| June
30, 2009 at 08:35 PM
191: Posted by: rc
| June
30, 2009 at 10:19 PM
222: Posted by: Nell
Ward | July
01, 2009 at 01:01 AM
228: Posted by: Lesley | July
01, 2009 at 02:04 AM
277: Posted by: Sheri Watson | July
01, 2009 at 01:31 PM
287: Posted by: Matilda | July
01, 2009 at 04:02 PM
319: Posted by: J Andrews | July
01, 2009 at 10:48 PM
333: Posted by: Kate | July
02, 2009 at 01:42 AM
335: Posted by: Mama
T | July
02, 2009 at 02:25 AM
341: Posted by: suesue | July
02, 2009 at 03:19 AM

Thanks again to everyone for taking the time to enter and thanks too to everyone who has bought a copy of the pattern – I'll be making the first donation to the hedgehog preservation society based on the pattern sales at the end of this week.

Garden friends

June 7, 2009 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)61 Comments

Amy and I have really been enjoying watching Springwatch on tv this last week. We've been following the progress of all the baby birds and badgers and we've been looking round our own patch to see what we can see. There is a family of dunnocks nesting in the clematis and in our nest box we've had great tits who have just fledged. This little chap wasn't sure about flying to begin with but by the end of the day he joined his brothers and sisters up in the tree.

We also spotted a lovely big fat frog and there's definite evidence that the hedgehogs are very busy at night in the undergrowth. I don't yet have any pictures but they've been eating the food we've left out each night and our new hedgehog box has had lots of leaves pulled into it.