I love my Postie!

My postie is the bestest postie ever. I love him lots. Just look what he brought me today. This first picture is some yarn I bought last week on a new-to-me place at Ravelry. P/hop. Ever heard of it? Put in very simple terms, designers donate their patterns and kind people donate their yarn and other things, then people like me come along and buy said things and give money to Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). It seems like a very good idea to me - go and have a look if you've not been there before.

You know the love affair I have with Posh Yarn's Martha sock wool? Well, the ever fantastic Picperfic has designed a pattern that I just love and adore - Aspen Leaf. I needed some big fat yarn and didn't have any, so naturally asked Dee at Posh Yarn ... well, what was a girl to do? Buy some Martha aran weight of course! So tonight will be spent winding and casting on (just as soon as I've finished sewing up a cardi for mum and doing all the ironing. Sleep. Pah. Who needs it?!

A while ago I joined in with Trashy's swap. It was a complicated little affair where you had to chose 2 themes and your partner had to choose 1 of them and send 4 things relating to that theme. I went for, oh who knows what, but have been blessed with the following package today from the most splendiferous lady over at Ballarat Patchwork on the other side of the globe. Ribbons and braids and gadgets and thingies and fabric (OMG that fabric!) and a stuffy sewy thingy...... I was so excited. So very very excited.....

But that wasn't all, oh no, A Piggy, my very own Piggy. With trousers and a posh shirt, fancy trotters and gorgeous ears. Oh how I love my piggy! Think I'll call him Ronald.

I had never come across Tim Tams. They are similar to Penguin biscuits. You bite off opposite corners, dunk one end into a drink and then suck up the drink. Like a chocolatey straw, only far, far nicer. I couldn't wait to try one so had a go with a glass of milk. Can you possibly have more fun with a biscuit and a glass of milk? I think not. Gave one to the boys when they came home from school and they felt much the same as me! These things are brilliant. Ronald is now safely guarding the remaining Tim Tams from hungry dogs who would love nothing more than one or two to nibble on...

No mum, I'm not looking, I wouldn't pinch one of those biscuits, honest I wouldn't...