It’s not that 2010 is a bad year – it’s not. But it is giving me a bit of a kicking, what with one thing and another.

So things are going to be quiet around here for the next few weeks.

The shop will remain open, and orders will still go out asap, and hopefully I’ll get the new stock in the shop, but I’m getting very very little crafting done, and there really isn’t much to talk about.

Hopefully in a few weeks that’ll change.

Have fun in the meantime.

x

Yesterday I didn’t think I was going to knit the Winter Olympics this time around – the last few months have been full of deadlines and I don’t really fancy another one.

However W’s jumper (above) is looking very loved, and very tatty and I’ve been promising him that I’ll knit him a new one for the last two years.

Last time it took me 9 days. Mind you about two days of that was while marathon watching Black Books (which seems like a good excuse to hunt them out again, now I come to think of it!), and this was before FB was a twinkle in my eye. This time around I think it’s going to take a bit longer.

And have stripes.

Firstly – Yay I’m back!  The site is still not totally finished (though it is getting that way) so that the job for this week.  But I promised to be back on the 8th and here I am!

While I was away W celebrated his 38th birthday.

I love him alot and the (very nearly) ten years we’ve known each other have been amazing.

(The cake is Nigel Slater’s Apricot Cake – the mixture split and baked in two tins – crisp as the edges and soft in the middle. The ‘icing’ is just good greek yogurt with nothing added to it. It totally balances the sweet cake. A family favourite.)

I’m hoping to be back blogging again next monday – 8th February – which, even for a month of only 28 days, is still early February really.

In the meantime, here is a picture of my one of my favourite winter things – flowering witch hazel. I recommend finding some and having a good sniff – they smell wonderful. (Tip – If it’s really cold you need to blow on them first.)

I don’t want to stop things while the posts are coming thick and fast but I have a major website building deadline for the end of this month, and general life, plus the snow, plus the fever/throat virus I got last week means that I really need to step away from the internet and get the site properly out the door.

I’ll be back in early February. Have fun!

(ps. The Shop will remain open, just so you know.)