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This is my entry for today's Mass Observation project. I am slightly concerned that it comes across like a pastiche of the ultimate unknowing middle class parent, and that this is the impression that will echo down the centuries. :/ ( Read more... )

I am a complete f***wit.

We'd set the alarm. We'd laid out Item's t-shirt, bib and shorts. We'd figured out what time we needed to leave the house to get her to the start point on time. And we left the house ahead of ourselves, rationalising that it'd be good to get there early and see the set-up ( Read more... )

After Christmas, we had a few days where we didn't do very much, other than read books, draw pictures, mooch round the shops, take a walk along the seafront - attempting to break in our new boots, while actually almost breaking ourselves in the process - and pop into Hove museum for a second look at the Jacqueline Wilson exhibition. But then we had ( Read more... )

Right, so today I look like:


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So it was another running day today. I thought I'd spare you the same old clothes (K Swiss trainers as it was off-road, full length running tights, base layer long-sleeved tee, wind cheater jacket, and cold enough, at 11 degrees, for the addition of my black fleece hat) and do my night attire, which I changed into after my bath.

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Item has been taken on a day trip with friends, and The Boy and I spent the morning sorting out the cupboard under the stairs (yep, we know how to live). Not many surprises, but for me, the high point was finding a big cardboard box of loads of my old sketchbooks and artwork. All my MA stuff is in there, and lots and lots of pictures that will ( Read more... )

In news related to us having £0, I have a week off work this week, and we are trying to make it a bit like a holiday but without going anywhere*.


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Remember me saying how hard it was to figure out the piecing for a toy mole (or indeed any soft toy)?

I found an amazing blog which spells it all out bit by bit (that's part 5 of a series I've linked to there, about how to create the 'underbody gusset', which is what I was particularly stuck on, but I read through the whole series last night and ( Read more... )

So I left you dangling with the photo of the cafe k425 took us to eat in. After that, we walked to Walsden along the canal path, with hills all around covered in heather. Item and youngbloke got on famously, playing horses and chatting about Moshi Monsters. We passed about fifty bazillion houses that I would have bought sight unseen, for their location alone.


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