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The girls are, as of this moment, are due to be back in school tomorrow. Whether or not that is actually going to be the case, we’ll probably not find out until we’re playing Boris Bingo at 8pm (or whatever). So that meant conquering the piles of clean laundry baskets that were perched in random locations around the house. Z… Read more »

We have grandparent-y company for dinner tonight, so Nanny is helping Smaller sort through all her old clothing. I’ll give Smaller credit — she is a lot better than I am at saying ‘nah, we can get rid of that’. Nanny is also a lot more ruthless and unsentimental than I am; I keep looking away so I don’t see… Read more »

Nothing to report. I’ve done diddly today, and that’s glorious. So hi, bye, hope y’all are okay. <3

It’s a day later than I had hoped I could eke out, but I finished the pair of socks for Smaller this afternoon. We were over at Mum’s house, and I always do my best work when hanging out with other people. So that was nice. I got prepped for this pair of socks before we went over, and I… Read more »

Batman was standing on the couch looking at me, so I risked getting out my phone-camera to see if he’d submit to me recording his magnificence. He did, and I was an hilarious ass and told him that he could go when I was done. He did the cat equivalent of rolling his eyes, then scarpered off. Me? Feelin’ hilarious,… Read more »

By my reckoning, I’ve got 38 rows to go until this sock is complete. Can I do it before the end of the year? Maybe. Probably not. Depends if I’m chatting with anyone. I do my best work when socialising, which means that not going out to the pub means my knitting production has been way down this year (amongst… Read more »

I’ve been on a bit of a Craft the World jag lately. Smaller saw me playing, and asked if she could have it too. Well sure kid; it’s a great game. We managed to find it on Fanatical for £2.45, and she’s probably gonna get her money out of it fairly quickly. Past that, nothing much going on. We game, we… Read more »

I woke up this morning and went to the window to see if the potential snow had actualised itself. Alas, it’s just a hard freeze, and indeed, we haven’t seen flake one, but anyways. Parts of the country to the west of us are under snow and ice warnings, and we’re making sure to operate carefully if we’re outside at… Read more »

I had a few things to run to the postbox, and I finally clocked where the village Christmas tree is. It was further along the high street than I thought it was, hence not noticing it before. It’s very Charlie Brown, innit. But that’s okay — it’s 2020, we need a bit of the Charlie Brown spirit. Past that, not… Read more »

I was effing around taking selfies, as you do, and I caught this one with all the sunlight coming through. If it’s going to annoy me by shining in my face, at least yanno, might as well  get something out of it. I did zero work today. Like, my big ‘chore’ was painting my nails, which I had fallen out… Read more »