I’m spending today editing the patterns for the next issue of The Inside Loop, which is online in less than a week. I’m very excited about this issue and I can’t wait til everyone gets to see it. I could show you all the patterns now, but that would ruin the surprise. And Diane would kill me and I quite like breathing.

Trouble is, it’s the school holidays, so it’s not so much of a fun day for the small people. But they’ve been bribed with a trip to buy a new PlayStation game tomorrow if they don’t drive me too mad today. Half-arsed parenting, I has it.

So currently I’m on my second tea break of the day. Tea breaks take ages when there are three people and two of them are under 11. I can’t just go and make a cuppa for me without making hot chocolate for them as well. Except that one small person doesn’t like the instant stuff, so that means one instant chocolate and one cocoa, which means mixing cocoa powder with milk and then heating up some milk and making sure it doesn’t boil over while I mix the instant stuff with boiling water. So a tea break which is supposed to be my relaxing break from going cross-eyed looking at numbers ends up being a military operation.

And now I’ve spent ten minutes writing this post, so it’s back to checking numbers and making things pretty for the website.

ETA: I’ve ordered more yarn. As long as it arrives by Saturday, I’ll be okay (just!).