recently...

it hasn't stopped raining, thank goodness we live on a hill. though it's not the weather for washable nappies... 

i realised we have a growing collection of red, yellow and orange vintage vehicles. i love toys that have been through the mill of love, so much nicer than shiny new things somehow.
wee baby j has been smiling in his snooze, bless. and i've brought the orange knitted trousers out of the loft.

o-o has been making use of the big box which our new orange bin was packaged in. here his companion mademoiselle o puts on a brave face for the camera. in other fun o-o is reluctant to wear clothes, he looks like a wild boy, naked and usually covered in a mixture of paint and melted iced lolly.

i should have been doing something like this (via design scouting). instead i have been sitting on the sofa, drinking tea and listening to o-o's eclectic spotify mega mix.

babies must wear wool

o-o wears a lot of hand-knitted clothes, he has several pairs of woolly trousers. it is my view that babies should wear hand knitted, woolly clothes as much as possible. cosy, stretchy and one-of-a-kind, so lovely. i made some orange trousers when i was pregnant using the instructions in this book by elizabeth zimmermann. here's tiddler o-o wearing them whilst doing a spot of radish leaf ripping (please excuse the depressing, student house carpet, it has since been removed). circular needles, they're the future. there are instructions in the book for adult sized knitted leggings, i would dearly love to knit m a pair but alas, i am slow of needle and it would take me the rest of my natural lifetime to make them.

i've spent the last hour trying to put up our 'hang it all' (ish, bought on ebay for £30, not the real thing) coat racks. i've given up; our house is made of some kind of crumbly substance similar to wensleydale cheese, the wall is now pock marked with many holes of varying sizes, none of which will accept a rawl plug. harumph!