- Are all from the past week
- Didn't justify a post of their own (although some have already made their way into other posts...)
- Make me happy
Using the self-scan thingie in Waitrose. The weeping when I take it away to actually scan something is spectacular, I assure you.
I love the way the cake looks like it's admiring its reflection in the kettle. Also liking the quantity of red in this photo. I never realised my kitchen had so much red in it!
I baked it this afternoon (Adam's gone to Ikea with Teddy, so I have time aplenty today) - its a straightforward sponge and the filling is a whoppingly healthy buttercream and (homemade) rhubarb and ginger jam combo.
I've finally sown all the seeds that needed to get sown before we move. Things like tomatoes, aubergines (I don't know who I think I'm kidding, those are never going to grow) and the earliest crops of beetroot and cabbage needed to get a couple of weeks growing in before moving day in April.
I'm really looking forward to making the vegetable beds in the new house and hopefully growing a sensible proportion of our veg this year - and I'm plotting the addition of a rhubarb plant and perhaps a blackcurrant bush for next year.
Ahhh, the hexagons. I've made one from every fabric in my stash now. I'm contemplating buying stash bags. It's got bad.
I sew with vintage fabrics, not just quilting cottons, and some of them don't hold their shape terribly well, so since I hate stabilisers/interfacing with a passion I often sew straight over the pins rather than remove them. While usually very successful, it occasionally results in the above. Amazingly the needle didn't break.
My boy's totally getting to grips with this walking business. And a mere six months after most of his peers! (My mother bought him that fire engine trolley/walker, and we've been longing for him to use it for aaaaages. Now he spends most of his time trundling up and down the hallway with it).
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