Stitch This

  • To potter…

    My morning in pictures. Just me and Little One as Elder is off with OH at a Car Thing. We’ve had a lovely time. Tidying (me), shuffling around (both of us) and racing cars (LO). I’ve blocked my fir cone scarf, made some biscuits (honey, pear and raisins), play-doh-ed, sang the ravioli song LOTS and…

  • So not Martha

    God I must love my Elder son….I have spent HOURS making a travesty of a birthday cake I have also taken him to a school disco, bought glow sticks to prop up our parents’ association and iced little cakes for hm to give to his friends at Going Home Time this afternoon. I am pooped!…

  • Pink pox

    Well, Little One appears to have succumbed to The Pox that has been raging throughout the leafy lanes of Stitch City (can you have lanes in a city, I wonder) so I am facing an evening catching up with the work I am currently missing due to nursing duties. However, LO is obviously feeling rubbish…

  • Stuffed!

    Every family has its Christmas traditions. Egg nog, midnight mass, stuffing. Yep, stuffing. Crucial to the success of our feast. Paxo this ain’t. You remember my family recipe book? Well, my mum’s handwritten recipe for Stitch Family Stuffing fell out when I was nosing through it. It now has pride of place in our kitchen…

  • Come and have a look

    Want to see the book? I love the last one best. I think mum wrote it when she was little. Bless.