He can watch star wars without a problem... but Garfield gives him nightmares!

These two have caused me no end of trouble.....
Danny watches Garfield every now and again and due to the fact that Garfield loves lasagna or as Danny calls it "basana" he has deemed it worthy for him to eat too!

now during one episode of Garfield the bloke (can't remember his name!) takes Garfield and Odie fishing and they both end up underwater in bubbles of air blown for them by a spiky looking fish.....

Now the villain of the piece is a shark and since watching this episode Danny has suffered from dreams about a shark getting him.....

Way to go Garfield!

so after a few nights of trying to tell him that he was perfectly safe and him not believing me I decided it was time to make him a dream catcher......


When Jamie was about he same age she started suffering dreams and I made a very basic dream catcher, and it did the job wonderfully.... and as the thought of the protection that it rendered her wained and the odd little dream slipped in we would take it outside and flick it around as it was obviously full and needed emptying and then it would be hung once again in her window to catch the dreams as they tried to float into her room....

So yesterday afternoon I grabbed an embroidery ring and using the inside ring I started to weave some blue yarn I had handy and ended up with my interpretation of a dream catcher.....

I remember about 8 years ago watching a couple of girls in the craft tent I was helping to run at Glastonbury Festival and we were making very basic dream catchers using Scrapstore stock and they made real dream catchers, I was fascinated to see them weaving away and I could vaguely remember what they did so I dredged my memory for the techniques required... isn't it amazing what your memory holds....

I started at the top and then worked it in a spiral... I should have perhaps woven each round and knotted it off so that the pattern was complete but maybe the next one will be better....


I should have added beads but the beads I have are not that large for threading onto yarn so I will add some sparkle at a later date... and it still needs some tails with perhaps feathers or beads.....

It was hung in Danny's window last night and he slept through with no problems...
so hopefully the dreams will be stuck in the web for a while...

Hope you are all keeping safe and warm
take care
Alex
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Hello you

I have returned and I have no interesting news or even a fantastic reason for having dropped off the planet for the last 6ish weeks other than life, family and Christmas took over my world. I had so many plans for things I wanted to get done for the festive season but I had to content myself with doing what I could given that everyone seemed to be playing a relay race where the baton was some form of illness and I was the coach running around picking people up as they dropped on the track.

Mr P does not take holidays and does not yield to illness's no man flu for this hard nut!

"I am a contractor, I will only miss a day of work if I am dead"

and to be honest with that for a motto he probably will not reach his 40th birthday... but even the great man himself took 4 days off prior to Christmas and was bed ridden... I did go upstairs on several occasions and poke him with a wooden spoon to check he was in fact still with us and generally the snoring lead me to believe he was sleeping and not the other...

Danny had (in this order) ear infection, high temperature (doctor actually gave me anti-biotics), sickness, the word starting with D that I cannot spell..... lets call it a runny tummy!, and then a ridiculous cough that took an age to shift... Jamie had a slight head cold which didn't come to much and I then had a bout of everything but unfortunately all at once...

We spent Christmas at home, and I would like to thank Santa for bringing so many fabulous trinkets and gifts to our home this year... he is the Man! , Boxing day at my mum and dads and the following day at Mr P's mum and dads ( it is his dad's birthday though so just as important) .... I managed to stay calm and enjoy the festive season and not stress about it not being just so.....

to be honest I would so love to go away over Christmas, just find myself a lovely cottage in Scotland or the Lakes or anywhere away from home, perhaps some real snow for the children and Mr P... (the biggest kid of them all) to enjoy.

Oh who am I kidding given the opportunity and the nerve I would emigrate to Canada tomorrow!
Maybe one day.

Mr P worked between Christmas and new year...(see previous statement! lol) and Jamie has now returned to school and Danny and I are battling the toilet training...

I know he's 4 at the end of the month and the pre-school are piling on the pressure regarding this aspect of his development, which apparently if not sorted by the new year they will "refer" him so he and I are negotiating a deal for him to pay attention to his bodily needs but to be honest he sees little point in stopping what he's doing to visit the bathroom.


They are predicting snow for the South west of England and no doubt us soft southerners will moan and whinge, I hope we get snowed in.... 10 ft drifts and all roads to Dorset are closed...... but I have very selfish reasons which will become apparent should you read on


This weekend I am babysitting my dad so that my mum and brother can attend my nieces 18th birthday party at the Royal Bath Hotel in Bournemouth. I know he's my dad but the thought of being in sole charge of a temperamental partially bed ridden 82 year old concerns me but no doubt I will cope, I am at present being guilt'ed into staying at my parents house so that mum and youngest brother can stay over in Bournemouth and come home Sunday.
What has started out as a request for parental care for a few hours will inevitably turn into the whole weekend as after they leave the hotel a family Sunday dinner will happen and then perhaps home to Yeovil for 6ish. To say I am suffering an internal battle of guilt and resentment would be an understatement... he's my dad and has done and provided for me all his life.... however the thought of caring for your dad that has a tendency to have accidents of a toiletry nature terrifies me... Oh I don't know what a pickle I am in... I think the phrase "damned if I do and damned if I don't" springs to mind...

(for those of you who have a) gotten this far and b) give a monkey's behind.... we were invited to said party but declined for reasons best not published, needless to say I am at an end of being the "bigger person" and forgiving my middle brothers ignorance and would rather not put myself through the stress involved being in his company.... I am on a completely stress free diet this year....! well that was the plan! ;D lol)

Well.... to be honest this post is probably not read worthy and sounds like the ramblings of an ungrateful mare but I feel better for it

I had better get a shift on, I have been requested to drive Mum to town and assist with her shopping so that she can use up her Marks and Spencer vouchers and she'll need a new outfit for the weekend... and hopefully a pair of snowshoes! oh I am so wicked.....

No really I had better dash and I wish you all healthy wealthy happiness for a fantastic 2010
thanks for stopping by and take care

Alex
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