lnr | Day off

I'm having a day off work so taking the opportunity to get round to posting to LJ for a change. After dropping Matthew off at the childminder's and running a couple of errands I'm now sitting in the deli with coffee and cake and knitting:

And yes, that's rhubarb I'm knitting in preparation for a family photo shoot with Martin Parr at the Hepworth gallery on the 20th in conjunction with his show about life in the rhubarb triangle. My great great grandma (on mum's side) was a rhubarb grower, so it's a bit of a family tie (it turns out my uncle Tom was an acquaintance of Martin's at art college - small world). Anyway hopefully by then I should have three finished sticks of rhubarb knitted.

http://www.hepworthwakefield.org/martin-parr/

Trying to think when I last posted! We had a lovely Christmas - visiting Evan and Gina and having mum and dad visit us. And I had an awesome birthday before that. Big birthday party with soft play and a disco, and then a family cottage stay which was lovely despite Matthew falling down the cellar steps and bumping his head (I think I might have mentioned that already). Since then it's been pretty quiet to be honest - baking and trips to the park and Scotsdales have been our highlights - though Matthew is loving his marble run.

He's such a grown up boy now - barely a toddler any more. We've put him down for a pre - school place from September - but until then we're really happy with his care at Hania's - not least for a bit of multi-cultural experience. Starting to think about birthday plans for March :)

But Right now I'm enjoying a bit of free time without him and looking forward to Mike having the afternoon off too so we can have a nice lunch together and then finally see Star Wars at the cinema :)