A touch of colour

After my somewhat gloomy relatives, here's a bit more colour...









In Veti'Relais (one of the Secours Catholic Thrift Shops) I came across these four crocheted mats. They seem to have found a natural home on my Kath Kidston ironing board cover...

To add to the candy-stripes theme, our younger son has been spending the holidays making and decorating biscuits...

They were 'maths biscuits' - here you see some of the mathematical symbols and a few numbers. We had to put them together to make sums with correct answers before we ate them...