It wasn't multicoloured, but I loved this wool when I saw it, and I knitted a lovely stripy blanket for Patrick's wolf cuddly toy/pencil case called "Eskie".


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i think i have passed on the Genetic predisposition to stripes - markus Models his tshirt and hat (not Intentionally matching!)


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I have a precious few hours to myself and am working my way through my inbox, emails, paying bills and trying to figure out where the last month week. Life has been busy. Mr.ncot has started new job, been to Scotland twice for his MBA, handed in many assignments, and in the last week has sat 3 exams. We have had my parents to stay for a weekend, ( Read more... )

Today's post is just this scan of some beautiful stripy vases. That is all. Normal service will be returned soon!

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Mr.ncot took the day off yesterday and we went to Berne on the train to visit the Paul Klee Museum. I knew there as a reason I liked Klee, see the stripy postcards below! There was an exhibition themed round childhood, with lots of line drawings of children, mothers, families. I really enjoyed. The centre piece was an oldfashioned fairground ( Read more... )

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Sometimes in life, other people's confidence in us, more than makes up for our uncertainty about our future. I bring you the tale of the stripy south american dungarees, or "Gerry was right!"

These gorgeous stripy marvels were sent to us just before Markus was born, by my Aunt Sharon. Gerry and Sharon featured often on this blog and read it ( Read more... )

So, we seem to have had a lot of visitors in the last week - see the snapshots below :-)

Sept:
3rd - Alan models our sling / tragetuch
4th - Markus is 3 weeks old
5th - Maternal love
6th - My mum with Markus
7th - My dad with Markus
8th - Sanity is a park bench...
9th - baby ncot models his new stripy top from yokospungeon :-)


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This week has been a bit of a mixed bag. The start of the week at work was incredibly stressful. I have been organising the new onboarding training program for Poland and until Thursday just gone, we didn't have enough training rooms. By the end of the week however, my colleagues in Poland had finally realised that time was ticking on and that I ( Read more... )