Froglet
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This is my blanket so far! 😉 As 52 squares is a strange number to sort into rows (it will end up being long and thin) I decided to make extra squares for days such as my birthday, Christmas, New year solstices, equinoxes etc. These will follow a pattern rather than the randomness of daily temperatures. Depending on what looks like when done I’ll create a border of some kind, maybe using all the colours and then will put it on the bed/sofa in my craft room (another, slightly more ambitious 50th year project!).
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Fine by me! It will have been a useful and enjoyable hour! We’re you looking for something in particular?
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I’m making granny squares with one round each day and am planning to do ‘join as you go’ which will hopefully keep it manageable. A friend knitted one a couple of years ago and got fed up with it as it became so heavy. I’ve chosen a non-traditional range of colours too - I’m not really a yellow/orange person and wanted it to b3 something I would use afterwards.
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I have been enjoying a lazy two days so far - I must work this afternoon though. I was going to do it this morning but fell asleep on the sofa snuggled beneath layers of blankets! I was going to meet someone for tea this morning but when I messaged her it turned out that she’d got her dates mixed up and had meant it to be Saturday! I finished a pair of socks last night and have started a temperature blanket which is one of my 50th year projects but that’s only a small amount of time each day so I need to find my next thing to work on.
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Thank you everyone! Today to be honest I have spent most of the day in a car en route home from Northumberland - half of it in a recovery truck as we broke down! Luckily most of my celebrating was done yesterday - out for a cosy meal. My sister-in-law baked a cake which my nieces decorated in truly memorable style (I was instructed not to look but they were doing it at the table in front of me!). My 10 year old niece had made me her own special present - a beautiful (and enormously long) finger knitted scarf. Plus we were also celebrating Lakshmi puja as part of Diwali so we had sparklers!
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I’m so glad you asked!
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I’ve never heard that at all - love finding out new sayings and phrases!
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Happy Birthday! Have a wonderful day!
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Maybe a 5km mud saunter? I’m good with mud, not so much with running. I have, though, just planned out the 50th year temperature blanket I intend to make. I have been pondering a list of 12 bakes I’ve never made before…
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I was pondering a set of things that I’ve never baked before like babka or macarons. I do have ‘build a gingerbread house’ on there already.
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I’d love to do an Anne of Green Gables visit to Canada. See an opera in Milan. London. Scottish Highlands and Islands. Just on holiday somewhere.
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50 books was on my list - just no idea which ones! There is 1 year and 11 days to complete the list! Not abseiling or channel swimming although some kind of swimming challenge maybe? I’m not going to do Bake Off! Maybe but probably not hot air ballooning. Not sure about mountain climbing… I have been to both ballet and opera and like them. I’d like to perhaps learn some kind of dance. There are places I’d like to go and see but so many things are really hard to do on your own - I’m not very brave in that way.
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Sounds like a lovely few days Sunnyday! Louby - I love a good bit of throwing out! Well, I am on half term for two weeks and am looking forward to it so much. For a whole host of reasons school is particularly tough at the moment and although the TDL is still there there will be a break from the day to day pressures. Of course, as it’s the first day I’m up at 6.30am! Today and tomorrow I’m mainly going to try to restore order to my house and go through emails and lists to work out exactly what is on the TDL and make a plan to tackle it. I was also intending to read a new book which downloaded to my kindle except that the kindle has disappeared - entirely possible it’s under a heap of ironing. My other thought for the holiday was to start making a list of 50 things to do before I’m 50. I have 3 so far so any ideas gratefully received! My brother suggested going to work for 50 days - just 50!
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Thank you! I have got the absolute bare minimum done and have given up for today. I will get up early tomorrow to do other stuff. Right now I’m drinking proper hot chocolate, watching Strictly and crocheting a baby blanket. Lots of other people at school have had the autumn cold and although I don’t feel ill it wouldn’t surprise me if it was on the way. Louby - yep 2 weeks off. We lose a week in summer to get two in October.
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I am having serious motivation problems today - am not feeling great (pretty sure it’s just tired but not quite tired enough to sleep nor ill enough to be off school. Even if I were the things on my to do list are for other classes so I’d have to do them anyway. 🙁 Just one week until half term - I can do this!
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I’m still here! Just very, very busy (I didn’t think it was possible to e busier than last year but I am). HT keeps saying to slow down but the TDL is still there. Today however, after waking up at 5am I have not done much - one urgent school job some crochet - I’m making new cot blankets for the two reception classes at school, binge watched a lot of episodes of Poirot and had a nap. At least it was 2 1/2 hours long - I’m not sure that can still count as a nap!
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Sunnyday maybe sprinkle with bicarbonate of soda for a bit?
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That is so true! I traumatised two of them the other day by telling them they had to stay in at playtime until they’d done enough work. Oddly enough, the next day they wrote more quickly and chatted less! I hasten to add - I only ever do this with children who I know should have been capable of completing all that was expected. I am probably being old fashioned and grumpy but so many of them just don’t seem to realise that their actions have consequences.
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I’m not sure I could at the moment - my new class don’t really get “pace” - their world includes words like amble, stroll and ‘those instructions apply to everyone else but me”!
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I rarely stop wearing them - my house is always freezing!
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Oh how lovely!
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Very definitely cooking!
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We have been thinking lots recently about the things that many children don't have the opportunity to experience and contemplating running clubs at school related to them. Firstly it made me realise just how very lucky I was as a child! Secondly, I'm looking for ideas.... things I have come up with so far include: - board/card games - woodwork - playing recorders - sewing - gardening What other kind of things might you add to this list?
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Anaya and Rusty (my niblings named them for me).
