Lately......

 

We are babysitting Fi's guinea pigs ( Gimme pigs)

Check out the tail!!

 

 

Biggest frost of the year last week!!

I thought I'd try doing one of these lists like on meet me at mikes and foxes lane.
( It was harder than i thought it would be!! )

Making : crochet chickens and eggs, crochet bunting, granny squares

Cooking : apple and rhubarb, coleslaw, spinach & potato torte

Drinking : chai tea

Reading: The Cazalet Chronicles

Wanting: To lay in the sun at the beach

Looking: amigurumi books and on internet & bunny stuff (for sunny)

Playing: with Fi's guinea pigs that are staying here

Wasting: lettuce (too much in garden but is now being fed to guinea pigs)

Sewing: a patchwork doona cover

Wishing: for more hours in the day

Enjoying: listening to fire by casabian and home by edward something

Waiting: for my hair to grow

Liking: eating granola, vanilla yogurt and apple and rhubarb for breakfast

Wondering: What to do with the brussel sprouts I have grown

Loving:  spying on Sunny playing
Hoping: for peace love and happiness (with some mung beans)

Marvelling: At how big the kids are getting

Needing: to go to bed early

Smelling: Jasmin at my friend Deanie's house

Wearing: Ugg boots (it is still very cold at night)

Following: 5-2 fast diet (more like 6-1)

Noticing:   the days getting longer

Knowing: not much

Thinking: that we humans are a crazy bunch - the things we do?!?

Feeling: both content and restless

Bookmarking: pokemon amigurumi and felt food

Opening: the fire - the wood is a little damp and I am always mucking about with it

Giggling: at a video of sunny dancing

Feeling : cold in the morning

Happy Birthday Django

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Django is seven.  What a lovable, funny, long, skinny, crazy thing he is!!!
Happy Birthday.

He is just a bit too cute here!!!

Our  favourite song this week is...

Dangerous things you should let your kids do

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number One is play with fire.  I am glad to hear I am doing something right!

A beautiful Day

What a glorious crystal clear morning.   I think we have turned the winter corner - I can feel spring on the way!    Sun is returning on my breakfast couch.   I love a cup of tea here in the early morning sun.

 I do love the morning....especially on a blue sky day with nothing set to do, the whole day stretching ahead to fill as it happens to get filled....

 

Two poppies are out.

The cabbages are ready to pick - that is one thing I will do today - make some coleslaw.

The rhubarb is thriving - I will also make some stewed apple and rhubarb today , so good on granola for breaky!
 (I have also been making apple and rhubarb crumble - yum!).

 

And Another one!

A video for Aunty Hu Hu !!

Sunny makes Sun Bread

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I haven't been doing much of this blogging lark this year - i kind of lost interest, but I am feeling a resurgence.  I do like looking back over it - it is a good reminder of life lived.  Sometimes it feels like I've done nothing different or interesting to write about, but actually it is all these little everyday simple  moments that make  life what it is.  Nothing amazing but important nonetheless.  These days at home with Sunny (and the boys) are not infinite and I would like to remember how we spent them when I am old!

Anyway I was looking through the photos and found these cute ones of Sunny and thought I'd put them up.  We made Sun Bread.  It is from a very cute book -
Sun Bread  by Elisa Kleven.

I just read a very good thing (i don't know what to call it - opinion piece perhaps?)   The intellectual benefits of a real old fashioned summer...

(Even though it is the middle of winter here!!)
That is all for now, time to get out in the garden!