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Oh they’re quite small squares then? Will look lovely with white between them, that’ll really set them off! Great idea.

That’s really good! 45 stitch squares on 4mm needles?

How many squares have you managed, Sunnyday?

Oh fantastic! Have a really lovely day - I hope there’s a good cake! Xxx

Yes, that’s what I’d do too. We sometimes didn’t have children joining until they were almost 3 anyway, so we called them ‘baseline 2/3’ I’d certainly not be losing sleep over it. How many children are you talking about, and are you using Tapestry? If you are, then you should be able to rattle through them without too much bother at all. There’s been no obs whilst you’ve been non- operational, so that will actually work in your favour and give you those older observations on which to base your 2’s. Just try and get a couple done a week, yourself - DELEGATE to key persons of course - that will give you good one to one time when you go through it with them, to make sure you’re all on the same page. Or have an evening together as a team with nibbles etc and just go through them - you’ll be surprised at how many you can get through as you say ‘Oh Jack is the same level as Jill, so we can use very similar wording there’.

Ours landed this morning too!

Oh FM, that’s awful. We lost a Mum just before Christmas one year - a car accident on her way home from Edinburgh where she’d been Christmas shopping for her boys. We had a strong emotional attachment to her, as she was a young mum, only 23, who had had to cope with febrile convulsions in her youngest boy, and once ran into preschool carrying the almost lifeless little boy and dumped him in my arms whilst she collapsed. (He was okay after a trip to hospital - ambulance called and whole village ripe with gossip) It was truly hard to deal with. Dad continued to bring both boys to preschool and we opened spaces (that sometimes didn’t really exist) whenever he brought them. We made it clear to him that he could just bring them whenever he needed to, as he had no local support network apart from his Dad. I enlisted a few volunteer Mums to assist at a session so that two of us were able to attend her funeral, after a discussion with staff about whether closing would be appropriate. We had her boys to look after, so decided to run as normal. It’s going to be tough for you, you’ll be juggling your feelings of sympathy, love and compassion with bouts of emotional detachment (which you’ll have to do, just to be able to function and run the day to day sessions) and boy that’s hard! We made a scrap book of things with the boys, pictures of their Mum and bits and bobs they found, pictures they continued to paint for her all stuck in that they took home when they left (we looked at the books quite a lot on days when they wanted to chat about her, and each time something new was added) and we had a condolence book for parents to write in. Phew - that went on a bit, sorry! ZZ, I’m sure you’ll absolutely smash that inspection! Enthusiasm goes that extra mile!

Okay……. This is weird …..

Doesn’t mean anything these days *shrugs*

Thank you. It’s really very simple 🥰

Great! That’s what I was aiming for. 🥰

Well the black scarf is done - a long one, 2x100g balls of black DK with the rainbow ends.

Fabulous! Well done you!

Are they old enough to understand ‘what time is it, mr wolf?’ Tatty Bumpkin style of yoga storytelling? neither really Lycra or elastic, but just different ideas. oh there’s one we played sometimes with a long elastic that had a bead on, and they slide it round and hide it in their hand and the person in the middle had to guess who had the bead. That was more 4-5 year olds though.

Yes, it’s jolly solid!

It has a TPO on it, and we had it looked at and trimmed just after we moved in. It hadn’t been looked at for a long time before that, as the previous owner said ‘it should grow as God intended’ 😳. I guess she never cut her hair or nails 🤣🤭

How do you get on with insurance for that if the tree is in your garden? We have a huge 260 year old oak tree that would do serious damage to our neighbouring properties - and ours, if it fell this way. I asked the insurance company to note it in our policy and they were quite blasé about It, casually ‘oh yeah, yeah, ok’ so each time we get those strong winds, I panic a bit!

We loved ours too!

I earned a teatowel from them for sending a certain quantity, I seem to remember 🤔

This is the picture that I used when I learned the crochet knot - between colour change 5 and 6 😳😂 Its really easy and it honestly doesn’t come undone, even though you cut the yarn right on the knot. It’s basically two knots that slide together when you pull the yarns, then you cut the tails off. It means I have to crochet to the corner, cut the yarn with a 3cm tail then pull the work out to a long enough thread to tie with the next colour. Then when I’ve joined the colours, the knot falls properly in the corner and gets hidden when I turn back for the next row. I’m flipping the work over at the end of each round, so there’s not an obvious join in the rows like there can be in granny squares.

Ooh are they still a thing? I made loads of those years ago. Great for using up odds and ends!

Fabulous! Did you knit your threads as you went along or weave them in? Looks very cosy. X

We had three consecutive christmases without power from Christmas Eve until various amounts of days, one of which was well over a week, when we lived in Cumbria. They finally routed the cables underground and it stopped it, mostly. It was unbelievable the second time when the lights went out during midnight communion. The third year I hadn’t even bothered buying a turkey or feeding the freezer, so there was nothing really lost.

Oh dear - I hope she picks up properly soon. I hear the Queen has tested positive with mild, cold-like symptoms and intends to continue with her light duties this week! 😳😳

I’ll do the 12 circuits of white and then measure again. I might finish off by doing two circuits of each colour. That’ll give another block of 12 rows