Grey day

I try not to wish my life away, but I wish it were Spring. And apparently it's going to be minus 10 on Wednesday. Minus 10! This is terrible. It's a good job I've booked in for Hot Pilates.

If I look down though I can see a car wash and sometimes they hose down a kebab van and it's really exciting

The view from my window at work, I do think it's pretty though a little bleak. I keep thinking I will make some kind of a canvas based on these trees, with a coloured background perhaps in acrylic and then the trees all stark and linear in black. If I knew how to paper cut this scene would be beautiful (I do know how to papercut, you need a cutting board and a Swann Morton craft knife with a 10A blade, go and pick one up in your local friendly art shop. I know how but do not have the skill),

Utterly incapable of possessing a non-creased duvet cover. I am a failure as a woman and will never ever ever be a blogger with an aspirational lifestyle

Crochet-blanket-in-progress on the new grey Orla Kiely duvet. As I have explained to Partner, we buy whatever duvet is on offer for 70% off at Home Sense and I do not listen to comments about how 'the opening is not big enough and there are too many buttons'. Are we Duvet Reviewers? We are not.

I have to go now to make garlic bread to take round to someone's house for dinner. I've never made garlic bread before. How hard can it be though? Exactly.