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Zigzag baby blanket :: ta-dah!

Hello my friends, and welcome to a rather sweet little Zigzaggy kind of a Ta-dah!

Ahhhh, doesn't that little messy pile of baby grannies look so endearing? Well I think so anyways, I think they're pretty sweet. I really loved making them very much :: loved seeing them roll one after the other so speedily off my hook, building themselves into messy little piles day after day.

Do you remember me beginning this blanket? I first posted about it at the very beginning of February,  but I actually made these zigzaggy borders before Christmas when I was very pregnant. I thought back then that I'd be able to finish the blanket before Bump24 arrived, that I would use it to snuggle my Little Baby in when I fetched him home from the hospital. I had all these thoughts running through my mind as I sat and hooked these little squares. Thoughts of baby snuggles, of new life and new beginnings. Those thoughts have made this blanket feel very special, very dear to me.

Of course I didn't finish it in time. Even if Bump24 hadn't arrived three weeks early I still probably wouldn't have finished it in time as it was a very Time Consuming little blanket this one. It took an AGE to make! The squares themsleves were quick and easy, but the putting-it-all-together took a long, long time.

These little "solid granny squares" were a pleasure to make, they really were. I used up my stash of Debbie Bliss baby cashmerino yarn (the same yarn I used to make this blanket). Its a beautiful yarn to work with :: soft and smooth, it slips very easily on the hook so that you feel like you can get some speed up. And the colours, oh the colours! They are truly lovely. Not my usual Brights, but very lovely all the same. I purchased a lot of this yarn cheaply in a clearance sale quite a while ago, so some of the colours may have been discontinued now. But in case it's of any help, these are the colours I used ::

In the picture above....

row 1 :: 006, 700, 602, 013, 014

row 2 :: 007, 700, 602, 013, 014

row 3 :: 010, 032, 032, 016, 016

row 4 :: 204, 031, 031, 002, 002

The idea for this blanket was to have the two zigzaggy bands at the top and bottom, with the centre made up like a patchwork :: a patchwork of little Grannies all tipped over onto their points, jostling Beautifully and Harmoniously together. So far so good, the idea is sound. Lots of squares all stitched together patchwork-style, yes it'll work, it'll be a Good Design. So after the zigzaggy top and bottom bands were made, I set about making a further 120 little squares for the middle, with 16 half-squares to fill in the sides.

And then came the business of joining them all together. How to spread the colours evenly? How to make them come together Harmoniously and Beautifully?

Shall I tell you how I did it?

Well in the above photo, you can see what I did :: I put down a stretch of lining paper and laid my little blanket out. Sat and fiddled and fussed with the squares, moved them about, attempted to place the various colours (12 in total) as evenly as I could. Making it all Balance. Creating the desired Harmony and Beauty.

And then I photographed it.

And I made a print of the photograph.

And this print became a colour-pattern for me to follow.....

 

.....see???

Pretty Nifty Idea hey??!! Ahh I'm not just a pretty face you know, I do occasionally have some quite ingenious solutions to icky hooky problems (she says modestly).

Most importantly, it worked a treat, this nifty photographic solution. It enabled me to begin assembling and stitching my squares together row by row, knowing exactly which colour should come next. And being confident that it would all eventually come together Beautifully and Harmoniously, just like the photograph.

I stitched all the squares together using simple whip stitch as shown above. I chose to use bright orange to do it (colour 023, which I think has been discontinued now) so that the stitching almost became a feature. Cos even though I stitched with right sides together, the stitches are still visible, and I like seeing the little specks of orange in amongst all the bluey-greeny-pinky-purples.

In the above picture you can see how the blanket came together:: I stitched the squares together into their zigzaggy rows first of all. Then I crocheted 2 lines of dc under each row which makes narrow zigzaggy horizontal stripes. This was a very spur-of-the-moment decision really as I hadn't intended to put zigzaggy stripes through the middle of the blanket at all.  It just sort of naturally evolved like that.

 

And it works don't you think?? The little lines of red and orange give a bit of zigzaggy zing to the whole thing.

I'm especially pleased with the edging. I think that this zigzag chevron type pattern looks amazing.

It was a devil to do mind you. It's worked in very narrow stripes of Double Crochet (Single Crochet in the US), worked in the back loops only. And it took sooooooooo long to do a row! Meticulous counting, tiny weeny stitches. I can't say I particularly enjoyed working it very much, I found it a slog to be honest.

But I do think the result is beautiful.

So.

Are we ready?

Ready for the you-know-what?

Ready for a bit of a reveal?

A bit of a Ta-dah?

OK...

Here

it

comes...

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Ta-dah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do really love this neat little blanket, it's the perfect size to be folded in half and snuggled around my Little B when he's in his car seat. It's become our Out and About blanket, our Travel blanket, and it's already been much admired in the week or so that we've been using it.

But best of all, I love that this is a blanket with many Feelings and Thoughts and Memories attached. I love the fact that I began it whilst I was still pregnant, and I finished it with Little B layed by my side.

So..to finish off my Ta-dah posts, I do like to give you a few little Riveting Facts ::

Measures :: 60cm x 90cm

Squares :: 150 whole ones, 24 half ones

Time :: From December till March, with a break in between for Giving Birth.

Balls :: 13 colours, using up The Stash (Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino, worked on a 3.5mm hook)

Weight :: 390g

Cost :: Stash yarn so effectively it was FREE (yeah right)

Mileage :: I'm very sorry but I am too tired to do the maths

Photo :: Yours Truly snuggled under the zigzags, looking a little tired it has to be said. Nothing like months on end of disturbed sleep to make one look a little Tired.

Blanket :: soft and gorgeous

Me :: happy

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ps..I'm really sorry that I'm not able to share the exact pattern for this blanket as it is not my own and I don't want to get all tangled up in Copyright issues.

The pattern came from a vintage crochet book which you may well be able to find on Amazon/Ebay/The Library, it's called "Granny Crochet Favourites" by Jean Leinhauser and Rita Weiss. You can see more of the book in my post here.

The little solid granny squares are a Standard Pattern I think :: I would love to make a tutorial for them at some point but am so pushed for time right now that I can't promise when this might happen. However, the lovely Heather has a tutorial on her blog for similar squares, which you can see here. She works hers slightly differently to mine, but the result is pretty much the same.

Hope this is helpful info xx

To Elspeth :: With Love

I cannot find the words to describe how devastated I felt yesterday when I learnt that Elspeth Thompson was gone. My hand flew to my mouth and I cried big ploppy drops that worried the Little people. My heart ached all day, a really heavy, horrid achey feeling that would not go away. 

I feel the same today, although without the debilitating shock factor. But the achey feeling of Loss and Disbelief is still there, pulling on my heart in that same heavy, insistent way.

This is how I genuinely feel, yet I have never met Elspeth, only know her through her beautiful words and pictures, through the emails we wrote to each other. Just goes to show that the Friendships forged in The Land of Blog are as strong, beautiful, amazing and giving as any that form in our "real lives".

Elspeth :: I shall miss you, more than I am able to say. You touched upon my life in such in inspiring and wonderful way, I can't thank you enough for all that you gave me. You will always be in my thoughts and in my heart.

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My Wednesday

I was out and about around town this morning, sitting on a squishy sofa in a little local coffee shop drinking coffee and meeting with friends. It was good. REAllY Good! Of course my coffee drinking and nattering was interspersed with milk tankering, patting, mopping, coooing, bouncing and other daft baby-related things, but it was good all the same. Little B was good. And for that I am happy and thankful today. Happy and thankful that my baby-filled days seem to be settling down somewhat. Pheww. It's been a long hard couple of months to tell you the truth.

I came home at lunch time (riding on a caffeine high, tut tut) and was struck by the little burst of colour happening outside my front door...the three baskets that I planted up with Little Lady the other Sunday are looking sooo pretty! Made me smile to see them, it really did.

The above pretty potted flower is on my mantel at the moment and it's a real beauty. I bought it at the supermarket for just £1, and as soon as I got it home I took it straight out of it's little brown plastic pot and popped it into one of my old terracotta pots which I then sat in an old cornishware bowl. The flowers are beautifully vibrant, and I think I am quite smitten with them actually. I'm afraid I can't for the life of me remember what the plant is called, but it begins with a C.

I've managed to do three loads of laundry today, crikey, it's a job keeping up with it all these days. As you probably know, my house-keeping skills are pretty lame at the best of times, but at least these days I can blame Little B. He provides the perfect excuse. Faaaar too busy to do housework you know, I'm a Full Time Mum with a small, demanding baby to care for! Excepting the laundry which really does need attention most days or else all hell breaks loose when no one has any clean clothes to wear.

Found time this afternoon to do a little bit of baking :: oaty cookies with chopped apricots. I bake these cookies pretty much every other day now, they've become a regular part of our diet. Not sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing, but we all love 'em.

 

Monday's daffs have opened up today, revealing beautiful double blooms look. That splash of bright yellow in the corner of the room is so...so....can't think of the word, but it makes me feel all lighthearted and skippy and happy when I catch sight of them.

 

In the late afternoon I found a little slot of time to sit on the floor and sneak in some hooky. Little B lay next to me on his mat, kick-kick-kicking his little legs and I sang songs to him while I worked. I sing quite badly really but he smiled at me a lot so I think he must've quite liked the noise coming out of my mouth. I managed to hook the Final Row of edging around my zig zag baby blanket whilst singing out-of-tune songs to my baby.

Did you get that???

The FINAL ROW???????

Meaning it's Finally Finished!!!!!

Yes, my zig zag baby blanket is blocking out upon the attic floor as I type, and oooooooooooooooeeeeeeeee I can feel a Ta-dah post coming on! Feels like an aaaage since I last made a Ta-dah post, I am quite unbelievably over-excited at the prospect. Like ants-in-my-pants, won't-be-able-to-sleep kind of overexcited. Well OK, I will be able to sleep of course cos right now I suddenly feel incredibly tired. But you know, still excited through my tiredness.

Hope you had a really lovely, super-dooper Wednesday my lovelies...see you tomorrow for a bit of colourful zig-zaggy business.

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My Monday

:: A beautiful bloom from my Mothers Day bouquet ::

:: a bag full of yarn, making me happy ::

:: my coffee table, affording you a little sneaky-peek of a new hooky project I'm working on ::

 

:: Polly Pocket found sitting in the Big Chair ::

:: baby Anabel resting amongst the ripples ::

:: a jug of fresh daffs, bought this morning 20-for-the-price-of-10 ::

:: sweet pea seedlings growing happily away on my kitchen drainer ::

:: trying to drink a cup of tea, reheated three times due to distractions of the Babyish Kind ::

:: above mentioned Babyish Distractions, oh so snuggly today ::

:: mmmmmm baby cuddles, did I mention I did lots of baby cuddling today? ::

 

:: sitting on the sofa admiring my spotty-dotty socks ::

Crochet :: Japanese Style

Ahhh this book, do you remember me telling you it arrived on Saturday? It came aaaaaalllllll the way from Japan you know, and for some inexplicable reason this makes me feel incredibly excited. First time I've ever had anything arrive All The Way From Japan before. I keep thinking how bloomin marvelous it is that I can see something on my computer screen, make a few clickety-clicks on my keyboard, then hey-presto less than a week later a plop through my letter box brings it right into my excited hands.  Can you tell I'm a newbie at International Internet Shopping?

Anyhow :: this book....let me tell you now, I've fallen truly, madly, deeply in L:O:V:E with it. 

It is quite simply GORgeous. Stunning. Inspirational. Beautiful. Desirable.

Oh yes it is all those things and many more besides and I am seriously in love.

This is what greets you when you first tiptoe into the pages..............

Oh oh OH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mm mm MMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!

Isn't that just the stuff of anyones Hooky Yarny Dreams???????

I fell in love right there and then, at the sight of that first Double Spread.

BAM!!!

Just like that.

Want to see some more??

Want to see some of the projects within these delicious Japanese pages?

A perfectly perfect Attic24-stylie bag.

Scrummy.

The most beautiful, beautiful crocheted clothes hangers.....

....just look at that amazingly pretty edging!!

And this, one of my absolute favourite pages in the whole book. Love everything about this image, isn't the styling to die for?? That shelf with those teapots!!! OH how I Love that!! Not to mention the beautiful hexie blanket there....

Isn't that design just amazing?

Love it.

Now as you know, this book came All The Way From Japan, meaning it is a Japanese book.

Meaning it is written in Japanese.

Of course.

But fear-ye-not, because the patterns for all these desirable projects are written in Universal Diagram format, as show above. Lots of gobbledegooky Japanese writing as well, but we can ignore that and concentrate on the diagram....

....which is actually pretty straight forward to follow.

Now if anyones interested, I would gladly write a post about these diagrams, explaining the symbols etc and how to read them, cos thats Very Useful Knowledge to have if you're into crochet.

This afternoon, I had a little go at reading the above diagram and making a hexagon, well five rounds of one anyhow....

....and it didn't turn out too bad, although I think I would need to practice my joining techniques as it's a little messy where each round begins and ends.

Now before I toddle off to go drool some more over the pages, let me give you a few details....

I first saw this book mentioned by Jane. And then by Hen. And it was indeed the lovely Hen who kindly told me where I could go to find this book and purchase it All The Way From Japan.

It came to me via an amazing Etsy Seller called Pomadour24. Super fast delivery, and beautifully packaged too. I think it cost me about £19 including delivery.

The book itself is called "Pretty Colour Crochet and Knit Goods"

Do go take a look at this amazing Etsy shop, there are some lovely looking books to be had All The Way From Japan. (just spotted this one oooo-ooooo!!)

Hmmm....I can feel an addiction coming on. Dear oh dear.

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Monday :: edited to add :: Wonderful to read all your excitable comments on this post, oh me too, me too, the excitement over this book has not yet diminished!!

Just to let you know that Pomadour24 does restock/update her etsy shop very frequently, so if the book is out of stock when you first go look, do check back again in a day or two as it will come back in again.

Also to add I've gone and bought Book 2. Dear-oh-dear. I'll show you it when it arrives All The Way From Japan.

And finally, due to popular demand, I will be writing a How-to-decipher post for the crochet diagrams, sometime this week I hope.

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Springtime Wreath

I've had a desire to crochet myself a wreath for a long time :: for as long as I've been crocheting flowers I've wanted to make a flowery wreath to make use of the flowery flowers. But the truth is I could never really be bothered to think about the logistics of making the actual wreath itself. Something a little over-complicated about wreath construction. Too complex. Too brain-freezy to think about. But I did really want to be able to make one and the idea would not go away. It sat there patiently in the tangled ric-rac of my creative mind, awaiting a time when I might be able to give it a go.

Over the past year or so I've been drooling over some beautiful wreathy inspiration in Flickrville :: there's even a group pool dedicated to this very thing. Yes it's true! Check it out, it's called "we love wreaths too!". And recently I've created my own little Wreathy Gallery over at Flickr, which you can look at here. Scrummy aren't they?

 

Yes, I do adore wreaths. Love that they are so pretty and decorative, but essentially non-essential. Frivolous. A bit of fun really aren't they? And I do like to have a bit of pretty frivolous fun around the Attic, sure I do.

So.............A tutorial for this little Springtime Wreath? 

Of course I can do you a tutorial!!!

In fact, it's all done and dusted!!!

Especially for you my friends!!!

So you can hook yourselves your own bit of Pretty Frivolous Fun!!!

!!!! Hahaha, I do apologise for the excessive exclaiming, but I'm a tad overexcited about this wreathy business, do forgive me !!!!

hmm, yes I'm calming down now...you can find the tutorial in the usual Sidebar-location, or click  HERE to find it.

You must promise to let me know if you give it a go, perhaps post some pretty and frivolous wreathy photos over at the Attic24 Inspired group on Flickr. Yes, please do, I'd like that very much.

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Edited to add :: thanks to those of you who let me know the link to the tutorial was not working, so sorry!! Its fixed now xxx

Springtime Flowers

I love making little flowers, and often find myself playing about with different variations and designs, kind of the crochet equivalent of doodling if you like. A little messing about with hook and yarn, a little experimenting, a tweak here and there. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes my little experiments get abandoned, but sometimes they do go on to become successful little things and that makes all the messing and tweaking worthwhile.

I designed and made these little Springtime Flowers over the weekend :: they are wonderfully quick and easy to make.

I even managed to photograph some step by step instructions for making them, cos I thought you might perhaps fancy trying a little hooky floral goodness too.

You can find the pattern/tutorial in the usual place, over to the left there in my sidebar, listed as a page. I've called them Little Picot Flowers, click here to see.

I hope the instructions make sense as I wrote them out earlier this afternoon, typing one handed whilst holding Little B up over my shoulder to get his wind up. A little typing, a little patting and mopping up of spit-up on my shoulder, a little more typing, a little more patting and mopping. My life is so messy these days.

My pile of flowers sat around on the dining table for quite a while on Saturday :: I kept playing with them, rearranging them, lining them up, pondering on what to do with them. And as much as I loved them and found them impossibly pretty and Spring-like, they somehow needed a purpose. So I carried on with my "hooky doodling" and came up with this Flowery Wreath to accommodate them.....do you like it?

Do you think you might like a tutorial to make your own?

I've started writing one, and if you'd care to pop back in to the Attic again tomorrow I'll try and have it finished for you.

That's if Little B allows. Ahhhh Little B :: I love him soooooooooo much but he's such a time guzzler!

See you tomorrow I hope ♥

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Saturday Morning Bliss

Took this photo today at 10:57am, it perfectly captures a little patch of Saturday Morning Bliss.

Me still in my pyjamas.

Pink lolloppy-flopsy tulips on the table.

Mug of frothy coffee in favourite morning mug.

A spot of relaxed flower-making (a new project on the go, more of that very soon)

And the most deeee-lish new book just delivered and unwrapped but not-yet-opened.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bliss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Outdoorsy Sunday

We are being blessed with the most gorgeously glorious weather here at the moment, it really is quite something. I wouldn't say that Spring has arrived yet as it is still terribly cold, but during the past week or so the sky has been oh-so-blue and the sun has been shining it's little heart out, and I've been loving it. Love-love-loving it!

Yesterday (Sunday) we awoke to a frosty, crisp late winters morning, with the aforementioned oh-so-blue sky and sunshine, and we decided to venture out and do Outdoorsy Stuff. It was nothing short of a miracle actually :: all five of us breakfasted, dressed, washed (well three-fifths of the family was washed, the Little People are exceedingly good at avoiding the bathroom these days, the dirty/lazy little tykes) and out the door by nine thirty. Yes, you read that right, Nine Thirty! And on a Sunday too!! Are you impressed?? Cos I most certainly was.

Destination :: Bolton Abbey. Of course. It's our number one choice when we want nearby Easy Countryside, and if you've been reading my blog for a while, you'll have heard me go on about Bolton Abbey on many occasions. Here, here and here for example, and lots of other times besides I expect. We don't ever tire of it here.

This was the first time we've been here with Little B though, so it felt kind of special. Just before Little B arrived, we acquired a very good all-terrain sooper-dooper three wheeler pushchair with sooper-dooper pumped up tyres. It came third-hand from my neighbour for a sooper-dooper good price, and it's errrmmmm.....well Sooper-dooper actually! Yesterday was it's first outing to an all-terrain type of environment and it was brilliant. We went happily up and down all sorts of steep woodland tracks, bumpity bumped up and down steps and ancient bits of tumbled down old Abbey, crossed fields and jiggety-jigged over cattle grates. Little B slept soundly the whole way, which was rather Sooper-dooper too.

It really was a most beautiful morning and it felt reeeeeally good to be out in it, walking in it, looking up at the sky (oh-so-blue) and feeling part of the Outdoorsy World again. I've missed it somewhat.

When we eventually came home (via the cafe for cappuccino and carrot cake and milk tankering activities), I found that I did not want to come inside. I really didn't. Wanted to stay Outside and wanted to continue to do Outdoorsy stuff and wanted to stay under the oh-so-blue sky for as long as possible. So I decided on the spur of the moment to go and buy some flowers and do some lighthearted gardening. A suitably Outdoorsy Sunday activity I thought, and pretty too.

So I bobbed down to my local supermarket and loaded my trolley up with Pretties to bring home. Little pots of narcissi and primulas. Oh so pretty-pretty! I swooned a little when I unloaded them from the back of my car, I just adore buying flowery plantlets en-masse like this, one of life's tremendous pleasures (remember the PPP's from last year?)

The mission :: to prettify my (very sad) hanging baskets at the front of the house.

It turned out to be a lovely thing to do cos Little Lady decided to join me. I swooned a little more at her excited request to help me out and it suddenly seemed an age since we did anything like this together.

We enjoyed ourselves. A lot. I loved that in her excitement she called me Mummy all the time, when usually these days she calls me a more grown up Mum.

Above pics show the Before and After. I let Little Lady do as much of the planting as possible, even though it meant that the end results are a little erm..what shall we say? Unbalanced perhaps? I promise you I'm not a control freak, but ooohh so so hard not to interfere in these matters! I just about managed it. But I might possibly have to fill in the empty gaps with a few more flowers. Just so, you know, so it looks centred and not all-over-to-the-left.

But anyhow, it's certainly a definite improvement on what was there before which was basically a collection of moss and Dead Summer Things.

Yes, a beautiful improvement I think.

Even if it is off centre.

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Walking

I absolutely l:o:v:e to look up at the sky as I walk about. It's not a sensible thing to do mind you, quite hazardous in fact, but oh it does make me really giddy and happy to do it, and therefore I do it often. I was walking home from school this morning and I walked much of the way with my face turned skywards towards the sun. I even walked some of the way with my eyes closed (I was pushing the pushchair remember, so had something to steady myself with). I love the colour you can see when you look towards the sun with your eyes closed, that sort of pinky-orange glowy colour, do you know what I mean? Makes me feel all warm and content to do that.

After I wrote my calendar post yesterday, it got me thinking about the weather over recent weeks. Its true that most of our February days were very, very grey and gloomy, but there was the odd day here and there that was quite exceptional. Just goes to show how vague the memory can be (well mine at any rate) as I'd forgotten about these sorts of cold, bright, sunfilled days that popped up here and there last month. That is until I looked through my photographs and saw these ones I took on the ninth of February.

I took these photos as I was walking to school in the late afternoon, just before three-pee-em. As that afternoon was beautifully bright and sunny, and as Little B was suddenly very tired and needed to sleep iMMedIaTelY, I decided to head out the house slightly earlier than usual and walk a longer route to school through our local park.

I remember I did the looking-skywards thing a lot during this walk :: the sky was soooooo blue and such a  welcome relief from all the grey/white that we'd become accustomed to.

The shadows across the grass were beautifully long, and the hills in the distance seemed to glow in the late afternoon sun.

I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this extra ten minutes of school-run. Enjoyed the physical exertion of walking (a steepish hill was involved and I was walking quite fast at times), and I thought how long it seems since I walked anywhere just for the sheer pleasure of walking. You know, a leisurely, scenic walk that doesn't involve getting from A to B. Probably the last time I did this sort of walking was on Boxing Day when I was still very pregnant and we walked (well plodded/shuffled in my case) at Bolton Abbey in the snow.

I miss that sort of walking, and hope to make it happen again soon :: need to purchase a sling type baby carrier type thingymajig in order to take Little B with us. Yes I'm really looking forward to doing that sort of walking again.

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