Monday 2nd February

 January ended with the black dog finding me again. I lost myself for a while under a sea of endless bad news headlines and wet grey weather. I'm determined to make Febuary a little bit happier. 

 Today's cleaning job was to deep clean the stairs and hallways ready for the gas man to visit on Wednesday. I used my spot cleaner for any marks on the carpet. I need to go over the whole lot as the water came up quite black with dirt. When I cleaned the laminate floors before Christmas they actually changed colour ! So I'm not surprised the carpets are in a similar state. 

 

 Today's bakes are simple shortbread style biscuits. Miss C requested some biscuits to decorate this morning so she can decorate the stars with as many mini marshmallows and sprinkles as she likes. Dinner is a nice and easy macaroni cheese with a pizza for Miss D who can't stand the sight of pasta currently. 

 This month's knitting challenge for N.H.A.P are devestatingly tiny hats and booties for angel babies. I can knit a set up very quickly so I should have plenty to post later in the month. Annoyingly I've lost my yarn needle so I'm leaving the sewing up for now. I might regret that if I leave it to long 😬.

 If I can find a sneaky half hour somewhere I want to start a new book. I didn't really read much in January and I think it's one of those things that really help my mental health so I'm going to push myself to make more time for it. 

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