Stitch This

  • Me

    Me

    A day of reflection…so here’s a self portrait.

  • Edinburgh …

    Tattoo .,, Thinking of having some ink…

  • Rhubarb and Flustered

    Late night baking for a play school bake sale. No sugar, no time, no ideas! Until I remembered the rhubarb a friend gave me recently. Chopped up and stewed with a windfall apple, I substituted icing sugar for caster and prayed. Then I baked them with a blob of fruit compote inside and prayed. The…

  • Open the door

    Today is the start of the rest of my life. What a corny cheesy line but amazingly I woke up this morning feeling like it was true. It’s 10 PM and so far I have cleaned a huge amount of poo off my youngest child, joined weight watchers and downloaded voice recognition software to my…

  • Inch by inch

    Sometimes realisation comes to you when you least expect it. It happened to me the other day. I suddenly realised that I was never going to get better. It sounds dramatic but it was just a small shift from normal thinking to be honest. I had been thinking how tired I was from walking the…