la beebies
mo' biggies - more piggies!
playing Pointless with the dishwasher
Dad playing with the toy car
what 'oo doin'? I'm knitting.
built the kitchen
party - sand in the kitchen - Rich building, and Adam climbing through, and Will building it around himself - the wee boy playing with the pontipines - cake that Adam decorated
playing with G's phone, using my finger as a stylus, then his nose
the playground
G having to buy cooking apples with tiny bites taken out
Adam spilling water all over himself, so next time I helped, and then he decided clearly that was my job
lifting him down from the platform though I couldn't quite reach
Sunday, 13 October 2013
Friday, 30 August 2013
woof owands - Ruth, orange!
papa leep! - grandpa's asleep
ma-mo - water
reading words from "diga" - tiger
climbing up the bar stools
running away down the road
countdown on my laptop
falling off the toy motorbike
puddles! when I washed the path
tang-tang! knocking on the fence
"cheeky little" "monkey pants!"
you can have more strawberries once you finish your cake
papa leep! - grandpa's asleep
ma-mo - water
reading words from "diga" - tiger
climbing up the bar stools
running away down the road
countdown on my laptop
falling off the toy motorbike
puddles! when I washed the path
tang-tang! knocking on the fence
"cheeky little" "monkey pants!"
you can have more strawberries once you finish your cake
Wednesday, 24 July 2013
cardigan
I finally finished my cardigan yesterday! Actually, I finished knitting it about two weeks ago, and sewing in all the ends and such, but then I tried to make a frog closure, and making those took a bit and then once they were attached I didn't like it, so I decided to buy hook-and-eyes but it took a while for me to get round to it.
Cardi got washed in the meanwhile, though.
And now it is done!
Not the best photo, and not the best top to be wearing under it, but I will try again another time, and also get a couple of detail shots, and then maybe it will go up on Ravelry.
ETA: Should totes have made a bet on the royal baby's name, I thought they might go for George.
Also I am back on the chess set and have done most of the knitting for the white pawns, production-line-stylie.
Cardi got washed in the meanwhile, though.
And now it is done!
Not the best photo, and not the best top to be wearing under it, but I will try again another time, and also get a couple of detail shots, and then maybe it will go up on Ravelry.
ETA: Should totes have made a bet on the royal baby's name, I thought they might go for George.
Also I am back on the chess set and have done most of the knitting for the white pawns, production-line-stylie.
Thursday, 27 June 2013
lurgy
I have a 21-month-old nephew. He lives a hundred-odd miles away, and seems like every time I visit, I come home sick. This time, it's worse than usual - I have lost my voice, which I don't remember ever happening to me before - but I forgive him, because he was pretty miserable with it while I was there.
Also because he is adorable.
I wear glasses, and when I took them off to clean them, he started saying, "oh dear, oh dear," until I put them back on again, and he said, "yeah!"
When he wanted through a door/baby gate (to get to mummy both times, iirc), he came over to where I was sitting, grabbed me round the thumb and towed me over to open it for him. He can close the baby gates, btw, occasionally even getting them to fasten; he will say, "bye-bye," and close the gate behind himself.
When we played the microwave game - setting it to ~20 seconds, counting down to the beep - he clapped and said, "yay!" after it beeped. Actually, he's getting better at the counting down; it used to be pretty random noises, now it's "deh, nigh, eh, dede, dih, fie, foe, ee, ooh, ah, bee-bee! bee-bee!"
He's amazingly confident on the climbing frame - some of the steps are practically waist-high on him, and he's up and down them, no problem. He goes wandering off quite happily: at the playground he was heading for the carpark, in Homebase he was off down the aisles. Also in Homebase, he climbed into one of the display boxes and sat in there, like he was on sale for £16.99.
He'll bring a book over for me to read, and climb up in my lap.
He calls me 'oof'. "Ni' ni', oof."
If you sing him, "uggy uggy oggy," he will sing back, "doo doo dee." (It's the song from Baby Jake - I have seen way too much Cbeebies lately.) And if you sing, "the horn on the bus goes," he replies, "bee-bee-bee, bee-bee-bee, bee-bee-bee," "the horn on the bus goes," "bee-bee-bee, aw day on."
When I said bye-bye at the train station, he started crying. I feel kind of pleased about that, and guilty about being pleased.
Also because he is adorable.
I wear glasses, and when I took them off to clean them, he started saying, "oh dear, oh dear," until I put them back on again, and he said, "yeah!"
When he wanted through a door/baby gate (to get to mummy both times, iirc), he came over to where I was sitting, grabbed me round the thumb and towed me over to open it for him. He can close the baby gates, btw, occasionally even getting them to fasten; he will say, "bye-bye," and close the gate behind himself.
When we played the microwave game - setting it to ~20 seconds, counting down to the beep - he clapped and said, "yay!" after it beeped. Actually, he's getting better at the counting down; it used to be pretty random noises, now it's "deh, nigh, eh, dede, dih, fie, foe, ee, ooh, ah, bee-bee! bee-bee!"
He's amazingly confident on the climbing frame - some of the steps are practically waist-high on him, and he's up and down them, no problem. He goes wandering off quite happily: at the playground he was heading for the carpark, in Homebase he was off down the aisles. Also in Homebase, he climbed into one of the display boxes and sat in there, like he was on sale for £16.99.
He'll bring a book over for me to read, and climb up in my lap.
He calls me 'oof'. "Ni' ni', oof."
If you sing him, "uggy uggy oggy," he will sing back, "doo doo dee." (It's the song from Baby Jake - I have seen way too much Cbeebies lately.) And if you sing, "the horn on the bus goes," he replies, "bee-bee-bee, bee-bee-bee, bee-bee-bee," "the horn on the bus goes," "bee-bee-bee, aw day on."
When I said bye-bye at the train station, he started crying. I feel kind of pleased about that, and guilty about being pleased.
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
back
It took a couple weeks for me to get round to putting the shelves in place, and I still haven't entirely filled them up, but it's progressing, which is good.
The chess set is on pause as I have finished all the black pieces, except for a couple of finishing flourishes.
The improvised cardigan was stalled - I realised it was because I had an appointment to talk about getting a breast reduction, so, if that happened, there was no point struggling to make a fitted cardi for my ridiculous boobs, but appointment happened and operation will not, until I lose some weight and possibly get less crazy.
So cardi has the round-waist section done and I've started on the back piece, but I need to figure out how far up the armholes go, and then do the terrifying front shaping.
Also been doing a bit of experimenting for a scarf design based on the archway round the door of a local church. Don't know if it'll work, but ideas. And I was sitting knitting that during the breaks at the Eddie Izzard show at the SECC, which was pretty cool. Knitting there, I mean, the show was Super Awesome Fabulous. As is Eddie.
Glad I went to that, even though the day after I slept through my alarm and didn't go to my volunteer thing.
Um. Stuff. Yeah.
Geoguessr now lets you set a timer, which is really useful if you're, well, me.
The chess set is on pause as I have finished all the black pieces, except for a couple of finishing flourishes.
The improvised cardigan was stalled - I realised it was because I had an appointment to talk about getting a breast reduction, so, if that happened, there was no point struggling to make a fitted cardi for my ridiculous boobs, but appointment happened and operation will not, until I lose some weight and possibly get less crazy.
So cardi has the round-waist section done and I've started on the back piece, but I need to figure out how far up the armholes go, and then do the terrifying front shaping.
Also been doing a bit of experimenting for a scarf design based on the archway round the door of a local church. Don't know if it'll work, but ideas. And I was sitting knitting that during the breaks at the Eddie Izzard show at the SECC, which was pretty cool. Knitting there, I mean, the show was Super Awesome Fabulous. As is Eddie.
Glad I went to that, even though the day after I slept through my alarm and didn't go to my volunteer thing.
Um. Stuff. Yeah.
Geoguessr now lets you set a timer, which is really useful if you're, well, me.
Sunday, 2 June 2013
time suck
http://geoguessr.com/?v=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6MzE3NjgsInZlcnNpb24iOjEsInJvdW5kcyI6W1sicm91bmQiLCJsYXQiLCJsbmciLCJnTGF0IiwiZ0xuZyIsImNMYXQiLFtudWxsXSwiY0xuZyIsW251bGxdLCJwb2ludHMiXSxbMSwtMjEuOTM1MDQ2LDExNC4xMjg5NjQsLTIxLjkzODkwNTYxMDE2MzE1LDExNC4xMzE0Njk3MjY1NjI1LDAsMCw2NDM3XSxbMiw0Ny41Mzk3MjgsLTExNS4wNzY3MjEwMDAwMDAwMiw0Ny41MTg1OTE4OTYzMzYxNTQsLTExNC45ODQ5NzAwOTI3NzM0NCwwLDAsNTkxMF0sWzMsNTIuMzkzOTY2LC05OC45MDgyMDksNTIuMzk0ODc3NDgxMTEzNDcsLTk4LjkwNzg1MjE3Mjg1MTU2LDAsMCw2NDcwXSxbNCw1NS43OTg4NzIsNDkuMTA0Mzk1MDAwMDAwMDcsNTUuNzk4MTgxMjcyNTY2MjU0LDQ5LjEwNDcwMjQ3MjY4Njc3LDAsMCw2NDcyXSxbNSwtMzQuMTgzMjQ4LDE0Mi4xNjA0NjIwMDAwMDAwNSwtMzQuMTgzMjI4Mjg1ODgyMjEsMTQyLjE2MDQyNTE4NjE1NzIzLDAsMCw2NDc5XV0sImlzQ2hhbGxlbmdlIjpmYWxzZSwiY2hhbGxlbmdlU2NvcmUiOm51bGx9
I can stop playing now, right?
I mean, I didn't quite beat my sister's score, but I've pretty well got the hang of it. And one of those was in Russia, which means three tabs of research - transliterate the Cyrillic, translate it, and then, if it's a place name, try and find it. And, and...
No, no more. If I play it again I will set a time limit or something, because that game did literally take hours. Now I need to go to sleep.
ETA: I slept, I woke, I played some more. I brag: http://geoguessr.com/?v=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
ETA: 9th June: 32390 points in only an hour and a half - http://geoguessr.com/?v=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%3D
I can stop playing now, right?
I mean, I didn't quite beat my sister's score, but I've pretty well got the hang of it. And one of those was in Russia, which means three tabs of research - transliterate the Cyrillic, translate it, and then, if it's a place name, try and find it. And, and...
No, no more. If I play it again I will set a time limit or something, because that game did literally take hours. Now I need to go to sleep.
ETA: I slept, I woke, I played some more. I brag: http://geoguessr.com/?v=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
ETA: 9th June: 32390 points in only an hour and a half - http://geoguessr.com/?v=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%3D
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
oh dear
Well, I have knitted practically all the black chess pieces - just a few arms and hoods to go - and put together the bodies of the pawns and the king and queen and part of a rook. And tonight, in the process of putting together a knight, I have broken a needle and a tooth.
Not dramatically broken a tooth, just taken a little chip out of one of the front ones, from biting a needle and trying to pull it through. The needle broke off half the eye, rendering it useless.
Anyway, I have spent three days so far at my volunteering thing, mostly scanning and uploading photos, with a bit of box listing.
Saturday I saw my nephew, who is adorable, and came and sat next to me on the stairs, and also, while reading Superworm, grabbed me by the thumb to make me do more "bang! crash! thump!"s.
Sunday my friend was unexpectedly in hospital and I took up her meds, but fortunately they let her home later in the day.
I am going to embroider a few features, glue a few more bits and then go to sleep. So there.
Not dramatically broken a tooth, just taken a little chip out of one of the front ones, from biting a needle and trying to pull it through. The needle broke off half the eye, rendering it useless.
Anyway, I have spent three days so far at my volunteering thing, mostly scanning and uploading photos, with a bit of box listing.
Saturday I saw my nephew, who is adorable, and came and sat next to me on the stairs, and also, while reading Superworm, grabbed me by the thumb to make me do more "bang! crash! thump!"s.
Sunday my friend was unexpectedly in hospital and I took up her meds, but fortunately they let her home later in the day.
I am going to embroider a few features, glue a few more bits and then go to sleep. So there.
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