Friday Chat Day

 Hello friends

Happy Friday, hope you are all doing ok.

It's a tiny bit Easter-y at home this week, we have an Easter tree
and I received lovely chocolate eggs from a friend. 

I've had this metal tree since the boys were little and the eggs have 

been collected over the years.

I had to take the photo quickly before the beautiful eggs got eaten.

Not the best photo but the only one with all the eggs looking perfect 
and jewel-like in their box.

Now the boys are men I did question whether to put up the tree

but yes, we need the little things.

Crochet:

 In the news this week: Tom Daley - swimming fame,

took up crochet in lockdown and now designs his own patterns.

I was so thrilled to read this, for too long crochet has been associated with

grandmas and now apparently it is cool! 

You can read more about Tom Daley being a crochet influencer here.

And in my little world of crochet - more squares.

This the colour scheme for my 'Hello Spring' blanket and I admit

to loving it a lot.

Someone on Instagram likened it to Peter Rabbit colours.

As mentioned, the plan is to have a blanket for all four seasons 

and after a lot of faffing I've decided on all colours.

(To be truthful I really enjoyed the faffing but it did take a while).

Here's 'Hello Winter' - finished earlier this year.

And this is the colourway for 'Hello Autumn'.

Hello Summer - the yarn is on order so I will have a proper photo 

when it arrives.

And in between this I'm doing a large dark grey bed throw

as a commission which isn't at all colourful so I'll spare you that one! 

Other stuff:

I had my vaccination on Tuesday which coincided with a full year 

since the first lockdown.  Later that day scrolling through my phone,

I came across this...

A full year since the announcement of the first lockdown - a lot has happened

and yet little has happened.

I haven't been anywhere, I haven't seen hardly any friends but lots of change

with work and lifestyle. 

I admit to liking my work and lifestyle more, a lot less stress 

but you cannot help but wonder what the future holds.

As for the vaccination - I was a bit poorly afterwards but thankfully the

side effects only lasted a day and goodness that is very 

little to put up with on the scale of things. 

Telly:

Gardeners World - BBC1

They should dispense this programme as calming medication.

It's so lovely with the bird song, the snippets of Monty's dogs playing

among the pots and plants.

The only downside is that I want ALL the plants and my garden

is teeny tiny!  I'm managing to fit in quite a bit though.

And talking of my garden...

I shall leave you this week with a final photo - 

Squirrel Biggs as we call him is back and this time eating 

the blossom off my tree! 

I love him but...! 

Keep well friends, enjoy your weekend.

I shall be in my cabin working on April's Charity Kit.