Well, if I’m honest, we’ve not done it but here is a whole batch of Christmas Hama Bead Patterns from days of yore, with a special appearance by “Santiclors” designed by a very young Gwenny.
Archives for 2010
Make a Fireplace Christmas Craft
Or how to make sure Father Christmas can get into your house if you don’t have a chimney. In our slightly nomadic past, which ended abruptly almost 5 years ago when we bought this house, we always managed to rent houses with chimneys, making it nice and easy for the great man to access the […]
Incidental Education
We’re sitting at the table doing pin craft and Amelie wants to know if there will ever be a third world war. We talk about that a bit, how things have changed since Max and I were growing up, how then it wasn’t that long since WW2 and that had been not so long after […]
Christmas Characters Pom Pom Craft
We’re busy here, doing better than you might think at enjoying each others company and being together. After being hectically busy, trade pretty much stopped when the Daily Mail started banging on about the weather so I was able to come home and be with the kids and Max hasn’t been so stretched either. We […]
Heaven knows, anything goes.
I did better today. Not as in “feel happy and chirpy and like Xmas is coming” but better in a “put one foot in front of the ****ing other” sort of a way. I can do happy. I can do Christmas. My garden is not full of snow like the other parts of the country […]
Down in the valley, drumming… drumming…
I am the Grinch and I am Scrooge. I do not want Christmas cheer. I do not want the fun to start. I do not want lights or jolly men in red suits, or greenery to signify life, or newborn boys in mangers or light to wash away the dark or death. I do not […]
96
Number 96 in the Top 100 British Parenting Blogs of 2010 🙂 That feels like something indeed. Thank you to everyone who reads and comments and who has got me through these last 8 months. Your comments and kindness have kept me writing – and the writing has kept me sane. I sincerely hope none […]
Co-operative Membership Fund Local Project Funding Opportunity
A few years ago I found myself in one of the loneliest places in the world. I found myself in a situation where it felt as if only I had ever experienced what I was going through and the very nature of it meant that I was silenced, wordless and largely alone. Where I was […]
Christmas Wreaths & Fimo Xmas Shapes
A couple of weeks ago I did a round up of some Christmas craft ideas, when I still had hope we’d replicate last years happy Christmas crafty month. We’ve not quite achieved that so far, but there is still time and we finally made a start on it on Monday,yesterday and today – thank heavens […]
14th December 2010
So many numbers. 4. 5. 5th of 5. 5th of 6. Or, perhaps, none of those. Very much eclipsed by this year to the outside. But not to me. Not forgotten, even if not quite remembered in the same way. I can’t say the pain is any less, or the grief, or the loss or […]
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