the day before the last day of 2013

This is the one day of all my Christmas holiday days when I am not 'doing something' so a chance to catch up on odds and ends . . .

I started by doing a bit of stitching for a birthday which is coming up and then Frankie, Alex and the Pips came round ~ Alex to put back the door between the kitchen and dining room : off since the new carpet was fitted ~ phew! ~ I was getting so cheesed off with it leaning against the gap and falling down every so often! 

Lpip and Dpip played outside for a while but it was really cold  so they didn't stay out too long and came in and went up to Frankie's old bedroom where I had stashed all the toys while the work was being done.  

Kpip will be 2 next month and makes us laugh all the time now ~ she is very cute! (and she knows it!).  To my great regret I have lost the plug thing that the lead thing from the camera goes in so am unable to charge my camera ~ no doubt it will turn up at some point but it's a darned nuisance right now when I would like some catch up pics!

It is dark now and the Pips have left and I shall go and have a sandwich of left-over gammon from when Stella, Rich and the Pies were here and then later on watch TV and knit. I hardly ever watch TV but tonight there is an adaptation of 'The Thirteenth Tale' from the book by Diane Setterfield which I enjoyed so much.  Not only that but it stars not only Olivia Colgate (from 'Broadchurch') but Vanessa Redgrave too!

Toastie time!

Po x

forgotten . . .

. . . or so I thought . . .

I haven't looked at my blog in months ~ no really! in fact not for over a year ~ not since my last post in fact . . . and I haven't been following other blogs either ~ which seems rather rude and impolite ~ like ignoring a friend perhaps?  Well in point of fact because I was not blogging it seemed kinda 'stalky' to be reading other blogs and not commenting or sharing . . . so I just stopped . . . 

But today I suddenly wondered whether my poor blog had been wiped off the face of the Earth and so I had a look . . . the odd thing was that it looked like four (4??) views today! Who, I wondered, was looking when I was totally ignoring the thing?  Maybe I should pay it just a leetle more attention?

2014 is just around the corner ~ I would like to catch up withe blogs I have enjoyed in the past and feel I am only justified in doing so if I share doings of my own . . .

Back soon with news of the Pies and the Pips, Tully (no longer terrifying said Pies and Pips ~ they are mostly bigger than he is now!), family, house renovations, knits, stitches, books, visits, fun times and more . . . .

Po x