Happy Diwali

This little light lit my way home last night - a tiny clay oil lamp outside a front gate, to celebrate the Festival of Light.

Shubh Diwali! 

Many Happy Returns!

It's a whole twelve months since I started this journal; a big "Thankyou!" for reading, following and commenting - it's nice to know you stop by!

Happy Birthday, Blog!

Sharing the love

Even the steps down to the platform at the tube station were sharing the love today!

Dolly cake for Music Project

Nellie made this amazing cake as part of her group's Research Project. They chose Nicki Minaj, and the task was to present a biography, organise a tour, and perform a song. Nellie spent nearly all day on Sunday making it - it turned out brilliantly, and she asked me to take a photo before she took it home again to eat with her family. I must say we've had some imaginative and interesting 'merchandise and souvenirs' as part of the project, but never a cake before!

Baby bobble hats

The deadline for this year's Big Knit caught me unawares this year, so I only had time to make three, and cheated a little with ready-made pompoms. Pop along to Sainsbury's next month, buy an Innocent smoothie wearing a little hat, and 25p will be donated to AgeUK. To knit your own for next year, go to the Big Knit website for info.and patterns:
 http://www.ageuk.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/get-knitting-for-the-big-knit

More hearts

I have a habit of looking at the ground from time to time when walking along; to avoid tripping on loose paving stones or treading in something ghastly. Good job I do otherwise I would have missed these little messages of love this week.

   This one, I think, is from a helium balloon which may be still floating around aimlessly in space!

Lots of love xxx

Jamming

Our rather rubbish summer weather has meant the soft fruits season was prolonged - so the fruit man at the market still has lots of plums. I still had some mulled wine, so made another batch of jam. I gave one jar to Samantha to thank her for her help with the O2 concert, and the remaining three will go into the Christmas Present Box. It's getting quite full, so I hope I won't be running around at the last minute.