Five reasons (well, four, because blue cheese is wrong) why the post Xmas reduced section is dangerous and I shouldn’t have been left to do the food shop unsupervised.

For some unknown reason I wasn’t aware of Harry Clarke’s work and am now totally obsessed with the macabre beauty of it. Trying to find a high quality print of A Descent into the Maelström.

Festive Totty and Totty Pot Porters are in… Christmas is now ok to proceed. Just a small matter of tidying and cleaning the entire house before Monday!

13hours into a predicted 48hour powercut…. Dinner :) storm kettle pot of tea and pizza!

The spaniel is nesting again, making every sofa a potential hazard as she likes to wriggle under blankets.

Small human’s first ever school CDT project. Based on observations of garden leaf shape she’s made a bay leaf chalk board. All design, sawing, sanding, painting and glueing.