Enforced slow-down and don’t try this at home…

Last week was a BIG week in our house! Lots of exciting things kicking off and almost as we reached the peak of activity, Little B got the lurgy. Nasty, nasty, nasty. Then poor Big B was poorly and then lastly I succumbed. Yuckity Yuck. We were not happy bunnies, but it did mean we had to slow down quite a bit. On one day, of what appeared to a week-long marathon I was the chief nurse. But all was required was to sit with poorly souls and stroke heads.

So I took the time to make a ‘hinted-at’ teacosy for one of my friends. I wasn’t in the mood to invent something so I turned to the ever reliable Debbie Bliss and Knits to Give. Those who know this book, will notice I strayed slightly from the pattern, done in reckless abandon. Don’t do that….it is silly and complicated and makes for working out headaches. Anyway I am sure my friends will be happy to cosy their teapot with their cable stitch number.

At the end of the weekend, Little B was quite sprightly and I was descending into feverish self-pity. He announced with the zeal of the recovered, ‘Let’s bake a cake Mummy!’, ‘Oh…yes…let’s…must we?’ I replied.  Undaunted he began to gather equipment about him. I believe that the power of the maternal instinct is based on the principle of ‘health and safety’ so I decided to supervise from a distance. Actually with my control-freakery suppressed the whole procedure went very smoothly…so I am thinking I might start delegating the whole cake baking activity to Little B very soon. As they say on our favourite TV programme – Horrible Histories‘Easy Peasy, squeeze the lemon!

 

2 thoughts on “Enforced slow-down and don’t try this at home…”

  1. Hi Emma 🙂 I hope you do not mind, but I have posted a link to your blog on my latest blog post, as I have crocheted your lovely Bon Voyage jumper, which is lovely by the way 🙂

    I hope you are all feeling better now 🙂

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