Oh it has been a fruitful day at home, not sat around (that has been happening less and less of late) but zipping around the house doing things. It makes all the difference. Although rather scarily our hoover (vacuum cleaner) seems to have gone to pot, perhaps from over-use this morning? I'm not sure, it's about a year old, so it shouldn't go wrong now, should it? I have taken all of the filters out, washed them, checked the fuse, once the filters are dry I'll re-assemble it and hope for the best. Otherwise there will be harsh words from me to Hoover! Thankfully we have two (ever the well-prepared cleaner, me) which will tide us through.

I am on my next knitting project (after finishing two dishcloths - if only I had more arms!)), which is a hot-water bottle cover, for, erm, a hot water bottle ;-) A simple thing, which won't deal with flaps, it'll be a straight two-sided affair (of my own devising, of course) with leftover balls of wool (one of which found at a local oxfam shop, bundled in a bag with another for 39p). The fastening will be at the shoulders of the hot-water bottle, using some nice buttons.



Today was deemed to be a biscuit-baking day, so armed with a shelf of books on the subject, what did I do? I chose to make my own recipe, which I will annotate at the next possible moment, as I will soon be nipping off to walk the beloved dog, of which there is also a photo today!