Proud Mum...

Helen had her GCSE results today and I'm so proud of her! She got 2 A's, 5 B's and 3 C's. She will be starting Sixth Form in a couple of weeks to do A Level's in Art, English Language and Psychology and an AS in Health and Social Science.

She plans to go on to Uni and ultimately wants to be a Primary School teacher.

We had a great day in London to celebrate and I had my first day off for several weeks. We went to the Tate Modern in the morning and shopped for the rest of the day, ending up in Liberty's where we sat and enjoyed a cream tea and a couple of hours knitting with Yvonne, Joan and Victoria.

Boy have I got some catching up to do - kind of reminds me why I don't often get a day off!

Hmmmmm.....................

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why do they never want to sit on an empty chair? It's not as though there aren't any for her to curl up in....

Minnie is making slow progress. I'm now on the sleeves but had to rip right back to the cast off for the start of the sleeve on the back, only after I'd found that I'd mis-read the pattern. I hadn't checked it properly until I had cast off for the shoulders and it took me over a week to get back to where I was!!


I've had some lovely surprises in the post (when Royal Mail haven't been on strike), the first being a belated Birthday present from Liz

Two skeins of hand dyed yarn - one sock and another lace weight (Liz, you know me so well) in gorgeous summery colours. Thank you so much Liz.

I have also had my Rowan Exchange gift arrive -

a beautifully soft neckwarmer made from some Blue Sky Alpaca and Colinette Parisienne in one of my favourite colours. There were also two skeins of some Coldspring Mill DK and a fab slice of soap that looks just like a piece of Strawberry Cheesecake.