Cat thyme

I've never seen a cat go crazy for cat mint, but 2 little pots of cat thyme from Diggers arrived this morning, and I just noticed that Jonty has discovered them.  One has been knocked off the back porch, the other is being, hmm,  enjoyed by her.  Better get out and plant them before they are destroyed.

Where else would you be...

but on top of a clothes horse on a sunny winter's day

Woolly Blanket Dress

 This is a new style of blanket dress I've been working on, a bit of a tunic style, as I just couldn't find a pinafore pattern that worked for girls bigger than 4 years old.  I know they're out there, I just haven't found them.  Anyway, this style does away with button holes, which suits me.  Button holes are certainly much easier on my new machine (2 years old now), but there's still fiddling with dials and changing machine feet that I'd rather do without.  This one has a button and loop fastening at the back, and a sweet hand embroidered doily on the front.

And here we have Jonty enjoying some sunshine on a train track, what a life!

Oh, to be a cat!

Jonty the mouse catcher

Jonty is a good hunter. I can't remember the last time she caught a native bird. But she's good at catching sparrows, and other small brown birds that shouldn't be living in these parts. And mice and rats. Very handy at the moment while we've got a bit of a plague going on. She sits in front of the compost bin a lot. We watched her jump over the fence from next door yesterday with a baby mouse in her mouth. She had another one later on, two in one afternoon. She has a good play with them before she eats them.