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With apologies to Martha.
Tilly now has her own sofa chair
who would have guessed to look at her that she was so musical!
She lounges in my window on the workspace and passes the day quite pleasantly
Though sometimes she has to share with Bailey
she doesn't mind.....much!
oops! sorry Bailey!
Around our garden there is a hawthorn hedge that has been allowed to get a little too big. It is my ambition to cut it down to size before it takes over the whole garden and eventually ... the world.
This would be a nice physical job to do after being in a hospital office all week if it wasn't for the THORNS. My hands are like a pincushion!
The wind up radio on the frame of the compost heap is playing 'Just a Minute' with my favourite Paul Merton winning as ever.
And now for a very surreal shot of the other thing I have been making this weekend - a 'man apron' for Owen who has discovered a real talent for cooking thanks to Jamie and Nigel but didn't want to have his photo taken wearing it.
So here is the apron and the tangled old hawthorn hedge (and the horse chestnut tree John grew from one of Grandad's conkers) on the tailors dummy that Martha found in a charity shop for a fiver. Surreal like I said.
PS - The man apron gets its first trial - and it works!
I went with the ties idea - though I loved all the suggestions - thank you - I am just back from taking it to Hester. She says she will try it on after her dinner. 
Many years ago I dyed some old wool blanket with cold water Dylon in a big old jam pan on our Rayburn. I made rag rugs with some of the pieces but mostly they went into the Circus Tent Curtains that still hang at our bedroom window.
Feels a bit weird to post about these as they have been hanging at our windows for years and I have just about stopped seeing them, as I live with them every day - but this last week I dug out a bit of pink wool blanket for this little jacket for Hester
Hester - the baby in the woods
Martha was home for a few days and made the little embellishments - I am very nervous about embroidery - not very good at it
I really like these little 'flowers' - simple and just right - and nothing like the Olympic Games Hoops Martha.
Apart from embroidery, I am very bad at button holes. This little jacket hasn't got any yet and may never have. Lara is used to this - we have settled on using a nappy pin to close the cardigans I make for her kids. I hope Louise is OK with this too!
But what would you - my world wide craft friends - do with the buttons situation here - bearing in mind I am a nervous button hole maker - poppers?
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And look Matt - in John's room
Before Lynn went to America to visit her family she sent me this book which she has had in her possession for many years. It was in a chest of drawers she bought in the '60s. She thought it should come and live in my shed.
It is someone's personal record of patterns they have knit and want to remember, recipes too.
the handwriting is amazing and a bit incomprehensible
If anyone feels equal to having a go at knitting something, I'll send photocopies!
My daughter Martha and boyfriend Matt are visiting for a few days. This was our neighbour in the traffic queue yesterday!
