• Reasons to be cheerful

    1. The Smiths on Spotify 2. Making my train connection (just) 3. Finding a vineyard in Reading!!!!

  • 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.

  • Smells good…

    So, here’s my latest idea for a family Christmas present. Inspired by an interview I heard on Woman’s Hour this morning With Edd Kimber the winner of last years Great British Bake Off. He was saying about how he wanted to carry on his Grandmother’s recipes and I thought, ‘I can do that!’. I’ve spoken…

  • Things to come…

    Thinking about Christmas…starting to get excited…or is it just me?!

  • Teddy quick !

    Like Little One’s checky bear? Happily he does! Very fast to make so nice to have poking out the top of a Christmas stocking. Here’s what I did. Made a pattern by folding paper in half and drawing (half) my bear shape down the centre so as to get a symmetric bear. Don’t want a…