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Monday, June 2nd, 2014

Together

My two boys, at nearly 2.5 years and 5 years old, do not play with each other. In the pre-bedtime witching hour they occasionally rough and tumble on the bed, but that is the limit of their playful interactions. This is something we need to work on. Oz is willing, Spike less so. However, changes […]

Saturday, May 31st, 2014

Logo missive

I miss writing for this blog. The best corrective is, I suppose, to just write. If technology existed to scribe posts composed in my head, many a phantom post would be a reality, but I am an over-thinker and over-editor. I have so little free time that, if I want to have this record of […]

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013

Party bags

My biggest boy has just turned four. It seems preposterous that he has grown into such a beautiful, fully-formed human being in four short years, but that appears to be what has happened.  Our four year old loves technology, revels in colour and shape and climbs like a monkey.  He is coping well at a […]

Thursday, August 16th, 2012

Buzzy buzzy bee

[Please insert your preferred apology for not posting, here.] I see that since I last posted, I have had another baby. That will explain a few things. Here he is, dear, jolly Oscar or, to his friends, Ozzie. Ozzie is a great baby. He doesn’t sleep very well. He will only nap if I carry […]

Friday, October 21st, 2011

Rhubarb & Rose

With baby number two arriving in single digit weeks, a confirmed diagnosis of ASD for our dear boy, antenatal appointments, appointments with therapists and paediatricians, and trying to get an ABA programme off the ground, there shouldn’t be much room for anything as trivial as blogging. But then a parcel arrived this morning and it […]

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Baby soft

With my dear boy starting nursery, there was a short hiatus in knitting while I sewed in name tags, planned lunch boxes and read and re-read Spike Goes to Nursery School. I’m happy to say the transition to nursery has gone much better than expected. We still have a few tears when I leave, but […]

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Spike Goes to Nursery School – the novel

In a brief segue from usual crafty topics… Our dear boy, Spike, currently has a working diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder so life is currently a whirl of assessments, appointments and sessions of one kind or another. There are obviously long term concerns which we are only beginning to come to terms with. However, there […]

Monday, July 18th, 2011

London Yarn Shops

If anyone has any up-to-date information about any of the shops featured on my London Yarn Shops page, please do get in touch with me, preferably via Ravelry (user: spittingyarn). I think some shops may have appeared/disappeared/moved since I last updated. Thank you!

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

Poppy – popped!

The next in a long line of baby knits is this sweet cardigan for a new arrival named Poppy. I have a long-standing, dear friend named Poppy so, biased though I may be, it seems like an auspicious name. This is a great little pattern named Garter Ridge Baby Shrug (a Ravelry link). It costs […]

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

Her name was Lola

Finally, all the baby knitting I have been working on is becoming declassified and I can archive it here.  The recipient of the following garment was born almost two years to the day that my own darling boy arrived.  I only got to hand it over a week ago, although I have sized it for […]