What I'm working on

I haven't got any finished projects this week but I do have some works in progress, two pairs of socks and another cardigan for Freddie.

This pair will be for me, I'm knitting the Jemima pattern by Kay Jones.

This is the pair for Mark, just a plain vanilla pair for him.  I'm enjoying knitting on both of these, the stripes seem to knit up quicker and I'm loving the squishyness of the Jemima pattern.

I've never been too fussed about using project bags but I bought the one above last year, It's supposed to be a make up or toiletry bag but as soon as I saw it I knew it would be the perfect size for a sock project, and the fact that It opens right out is so useful.

Stevie bought me this other one for Mother's Day, this one has a plastic zipped inner pocket which comes in handy.

And they sit so nice and tidy when they are closed, lol.

Freddie is growing so fast so this will be something that he will grow into over the Autumn/Winter.  I already had the Drops yarn in stash and I've knit this pattern a few times over the years.

Freddie had his first round of baby injections last Thursday, I went with Stevie as she didn't want to hold him whilst he had them, (I've done this for all my grandchildren, I get to be the villan and mummy gets to console,lol).  They now have two injections, one in each leg and there is also an oral one for rotavirus.

It's such a lot to give a small baby and they ended up getting an out of hours GP appointment because he had a temperature, they then said he needed to go to the childrens department at the main hospital.  Both his temperature and heart rate were up and they ended up staying in the hospital until Sunday afternoon.  He is fine now except he is still getting really loose poo's, Stevie was told to expect that for a couple days because the rotavirus is administered as a live solution so they do get a tiny bit of the virus. You could tell he had belly ache/pain when he cried and he was so out of sorts yesterday.

She's got an appointment with her GP tomorrow just to check him over just to make sure everything is ok because the next round of injections is offered in another three weeks time.

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 At last the opressive heat has gone and we are back to normal temperatures again, for now at least.  It rained here this afternoon,Yayyyyy, first time in a while and it was nice slow rain, the sort that soaks into the ground, so that's good, it means I don't have to water the allotments.

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