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  • Girls allowed

    Absence makes the heart grow fonder, truly. I’ve been in Brixham this weekend with some good girlfriends (like my present from them?!) and also managed to catch up with High and Dry in Brixham’s Vicky. She’s so lovely. We’ve had a wonderful, chatty, chocolate laden time. And I’ve loved it. But I miss my boys,…

  • Tweet!

    Gift tags? It must be the run up to Christmas…ready?!

  • Alphabetti spaghetti

    Now I don’t often ‘do’ memes or whatever they’re called (why are they called that anyway, because Its about mememe?) but I was browsing the lovely vintage knitter’s blog and came across the A to Z of Me. I thought, why not? Here’s me…. A is for age: 43! Just! I don’t really think about…

  • Sticky quicky advent calendar – the sequel

    God, did I say this was quick? Maybe if you don’t make your own chocolates….I’m whacked so here’s a quick summary….tonight I marked the motifs with numbers, stitched up the side of the fabric to make a tube, and then dropped (homemade) chocs down the tube, tying off after each one. And that’s it! The…

  • Quicky sticky advent calendar

    I don’t know about you, but I’m not very good at buying things in advance. So here I am the end of November and no advent calendar for the boys. By which of course I mean no chocolate advent calendar. So, harking back to a calendar my neighbour (Mrs Schroeder) made for me when I…