Pippa's Garden

Friday, September 26, 2014

Knitting etc.

These photos are from ages ago. Since then our second grandson has been born and we've been to London to see our first.

Friday, April 25, 2014

Finished the baby blanket for my daughter's baby due in June.

Anzac Day so far today. I like to think the boy who grew up in this house and went to fight in the Great War with his fellow island boys would be pleased to know the Lions Club put on the Anzac Day breakfast here today. Then I went for a walk feeling very sad for an islander we lost yesterday, far too young....

Saturday, March 22, 2014

My wonderful husband made me an auricula theatre! I don't know how they will survive my roaring 40s coastal garden but they seem to be coping. One even has a bud!? Which I don't think it is supposed to yet......

We have new computer and I have new camera and so it has been hard to load these photos but phew! done at last.

Have nearly finished knitting this baby blanket for our SECOND grandchild!!!! Our other daughter is now pregnant, what a thrill!!! I decided to knit it all in garter stitch and then do a fancy edging but unfortunately it has been a very boring knit. Lovely Debbie Bliss baby cashmerino.

My fennel crop of seed or what I could be bothered harvesting before I felled the fennel forest. Roman matrons drank the tea from a teaspoon of fennel seed steeped in boiling water for five minutes to stave off hunger and it is also meant to have slimming properties I think.

Our house is again becoming over run with pot plants. I love my old gloxinias and african violets and they love this house.

I love my mother's handpainted plate and hoya, reminds me of my 50s and 60s childhood.