Winter

Today we had the luxury of dh at home, well two days at home because I have had mastitis (fever in the night had me crying out that the walls were falling down and nothing would help other than dh going outside with torch to check the foundations. He didn't by the way, he's not mad. He told me I was ill and to go back to sleep. Sleep? Ha! When the walls were about to crumble around my very ears! He certainly MUST be mad). But today we walked and I felt better. The light was all golden and healing or something, but it felt like I had a dose of some medicine just being outside.



























Felix's hat? Well I sat with it on my knee a while trying to 'fix' it. It just was not working out for him, popping up above his ears pillar box style. His curses and mine sounded utterly Russian. I ended up adding ear flaps and i-cords. Now it is just right and he said it was a fantastic hat that turned him into a pilot. I forgot to mention that the yarn is by O-Wool and was part of an exchange I did with my good friend Melody. It is seriously luxurious to touch, organic merino with a matt texture. Plus I have found a place in the UK that stocks it for future purchases, because goodness, my yarn stash is dwindling; I can finally close the lid on my super big box when I sit on it (previously I could not, so now I know I need to buy more wool).





The perfect after-walk snack. Pecan nuts tossed in a pan with a dollop of butter, a squirt of agave a pinch of salt and a sprinkle of ceyanne pepper. Only a sprinkle though, don't make my mistake and add several sprinkles or you might be the only one eating them. Which is no big problem to be honest.



My favourite bit - after the walk when my baby, pink cheeked from the cold, but warm bodied from being carried by me, smooches down for some milk. I get to sit in bliss and stare at her lovely little self.