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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 15/08/2026

Well. Today has been delightful: Second hand books, sale bargains, fancy cocktails, a seaside stroll and good company…(and of course a spot of crochet)

My brother’s fancy cocktail, actually. Mine tasted amazing but his was more photogenic with its little orange hearts in a string…

Tweed style crochet. Purty but slow going…. (Pink, green and blue)

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 13/08/2026

Morning! Been for a bracing swim and ready to go!

Me by the lake in a changing towel, sunrise behind me, clouds in the sky

Still lake with sunrise and clouds reflecting in the water

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 05/06/2026

Look at this beautiful little thing that was resting on my car yesterday! What’s he called?

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 25/04/2026

No YOU just came back from having your nails done and couldn’t resist doing a bit of urgent weeding… Green fingers, see? Which has just brought back a cute memory of recently-18’s way of saying fingernails when he was wee: “ningersnails”. Do you like my green ningersnails?

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 19/04/2026

I’m still here, but it’s grown overnight!!

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 18/04/2026

Normally I swiftly kill maidenhair ferns, but this one seemed to like the bathroom. Only now it seems to be making a sudden bid for escape…this tendril has doubled in length in about 48 hours. I’ll be honest, I’m worried it might reach my bed overnight and strangle me while I sleep….

Picture of maidenhair fern - with an extremely long tendril running up the wall and around the corner

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 13/03/2026

Look what just arrived in the post unexpectedly - its funny ‘cos it’s true!

me chuckling at my new enamel pin - which reads ‘crochet - because murder is wrong’.

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 01/03/2026

Finished my thing last week…which, it turns out, was a shawl…(and handbag and earrings) A bit bereft at the end of my project, so am trying to remember how to make patchwork using all the upholstery samples I hoarded when choosing a sofa. Makes my fingers hurt and I hate threading tiny needles!

Patchwork in progress. Hexagons of many colours…

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 11/01/2026

Finished! (And have rammed it full of sewing/crochet related nik naks)…not perfect but pretty and serviceable and probably on I will notice the slight wonk and the dubious edging.

My newly refurbed sewing box covered in lovely liberty fabric

My newly refurbed sewing box covered in lovely liberty fabric - lid open.

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 11/01/2026

Will post pic when its finished….am just pondering which particular variety of tiny fiddly screws are best for the hinges…

Hammer, box and assorted screws being pondered over a cup of tea…

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 11/01/2026

May have acquired enough new gubbins fixing it up to fill the bloody box though, and the kitchen table looks like a bomb hit it. So, not much net tidying achieved! But I’ll have a lovely restored sewing box, originally made by disabled ex servicemen at the British Legion Village (as per the label).

Bare wood on underside of sewing box with weathered sticker reading Made by Disabled Ex-Service Men at the British Legion Village.

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 11/01/2026

I be fixin’ things this morning…originated in me deciding yesterday that I needed to tidying up the craft/crochet stuff strewn all over the house - decided to use mum’s old sewing box. But then I remembered it’s ancient & falling apart. Cue trip to shop for supplies for a major restoration project…

Upturned Sewing Box stripped down ready for recovering

Inside of sewing box freshly recovered - green lining and blue green floral pattern on outside. Featuring natty blue hammer in foreground.

Half finished lid of sewing box, still detached

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 07/12/2025

My crochet ‘thing’ is getting out of hand… it is (I think) rather beautiful, but still unshapely & lacking purpose. It’s spreading like the blob in all different directions & I’m struggling to manage its shape and lay…yet compulsively adding pieces in the hope its final form will somehow emerge!

My crochet ‘thing’ - grey crochet in the foreground with patches of gold in the background, horrible lime green blocking board underneath

My crochet ‘thing’ - grey and gold patches, horrible lime green blocking board underneath

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 29/11/2025

The thing is taking shape not sure what shape, but its becoming something…possibly a shawl of some sort…?

A crochet thing - two tone silver and caramel freeform crochet pieces

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 12/11/2025

Hubby has come back from supermarket with this, triumphantly presenting it as a gift. Rude!

Giant grey mug marked with the words “Tea Addict”.

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 10/11/2025

For the love of…is this seriously a thing now? What a load of mugs! www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ai-gene...

This link made me think of those mugs that say please don’t confuse your google search with my [law degree / medical degree] etc - this picture is a screenshot of said mugs for sale on google

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 08/11/2025

It’s a….thing! Not a clue what I’m making but now I’ve started I can’t stop!

Unidentified crochet project / tangled mess of grey yarn

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 01/11/2025

I’ve accidentally come on a conference and got elected Vice Chair. Also, experimented with freeform crochet while listening to the lectures. Quite pleased with the these. They’re like an abstract representation of my brainwaves while absorbing law… #MultiTaskingQueen

Freeform crochet “scrumbles”, abstract shapes crocheted without a pattern in fine grey thread. I think they look like chainmail, but prettier.

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 28/10/2025

The dog had a grand time once she found her sea legs. And we’ve just got back home to hear her oncology results are back and pretty positive (she’s wearing a bodysuit because she had major surgery and is shaved and has a healing scar)…

A surprisingly scary pumpkin - with teeth

Dog snoozing on the floor at the pub (this never happens. I think we wore her out!)

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 28/10/2025

Lovely autumnal colours, mostly sunny - very little rain - and a number of astonishingly unbothered herons….

Ducks swimming through the blanket of golden leaves covering the water’s surface

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 28/10/2025

Just back from a short break on the canal. Enforced stillness has done me some good after a stressful couple of months…would recommend.

Brightly coloured narrowboat, called Absoboately fabulous

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 14/10/2025

Trying to learn myself how go crochet love hearts. A good antidote to the day job at the moment, but I don’t think they are very… hearty shaped? Also, I like the multicolour yarn in the ball muuuuuch more than I do when its made into something. Looks like technicolour vomit once it’s crocheted, no?

A test strip of crochet in what is supposed to be a love hearts pattern. Blue hearts on a multicolour background.

The ball of wool that the background is made from. Cream thread with flecks of colour woven into it.

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 09/10/2025

Took a very necessary breather from trial prep to go to ringing practice in Clapton (our home tower out of action). Rang a touch of bob doubles, trebled to bob minor, tenored on reverse canterbury and (drum roll please)…rang Stedman doubles for the first time in a 1/4 century! (plain course obvs)🏅🔔

Shot taken through the woodwork and into the bell chamber, ropes and arms visible through the wood and arch.

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 21/09/2025

I can’t tell you how bothered I am by this!

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 21/09/2025

I am very much over keeping on top of my husband’s tomato project while he is away. Made 8 boxes of passata yesterday. There is no more room for tomato sauce in fridge or freezer. And I never want to see another tomato.

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 17/09/2025

How many tomatoes is too many tomatoes?? 🍅 🍅 🍅 🍅 🍅 🍅 🍅 🍅 🍅 🍅 🍅 🍅 Because I am not sure how much more of this stuff I can make and freeze…. “You’re gonna need a bigger boat*” *freezer

A tower of homemade tomato sauce stacked in boxes ready for the freezer. The next batch of tomatoes lurking ominously behind it…

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 15/09/2025

Samford Peverell. Tiny church. Tiny ringing chamber. Ground floor ring. Six lovely bells. Rang some grandsire. Homemade peal boards and a plaque commemorating former ringer and tower captain (Jenkins) who rang there for 88 years straight! (1902-1990).

Samford Peverell church from the outside.

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 15/09/2025

Old Cleeve next…8 bells. Lighting in the tower gave me a migraine and all the ropes went swimmy (that’s my excuse & I’m sticking to it). 17 rang bob triples 1st time - perfect! Open balcony - visible above the panelled door in pic 3. Roof pics taken from up there. Cobbled heart in doorway said 1614.

View of church from ringing chamber - pews and arched roof with black criss cross beams.

View of church from ringing chamber - pews and arched roof with black criss cross beams. Shows stained glass window.

Modern painted metal panelling at rear of church which gives access to kitchenette and spiral staircase to ringing chamber above. Ringing chamber visible above. Panels show various saints and above is a metal angel.

Two tone cobblestone floor made into heart shape. Lettering cut off st the bottom thanks to crap photography read 1614.

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 15/09/2025

Yesterday’s pretty trio of Somerset churches: St Michael’s, Minehead, Old Cleeve and Samford Peverrel. No scenery pics to show you because weather was filthy for most of the trip. Minehead first - 10 bells. Unusual peal boards. A v handsome church.

Peal boards in pinks blues and yellows. Inscription reads Palma non sin pulvere (no palm with out dust or no reward without effort). Maroon coloured sallys hang from ceiling in foreground.

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 15/09/2025

Bad knee has become feckin painful knee. 17 has kindly helped me hobble back in from the car having admitted defeat (was supposed to be going for a scan on another broken bit of me), and kindly set me up with ice and a cuppa. Unfortunately, the “table” my tea is on is not very see through…

Iced knee, cuppa perched on a chair, tv barely visible through the spindles of the chair back…

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 13/09/2025

You know you’re old when you injure your knee on your nightly stagger to the bathroom for a 3am wee…my bad knee is now my good knee, cos my good knee has overtaken it… my dog walk today was decidedly slow, but that wasn’t all bad cos I got to stop and absorb it. And it does feel better for moving.

View over sea wall to marine lake and pier beyond

Beach, pier, crows overhead, lemony sunset

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 09/09/2025

I have noticed that the shadow on 17’s ceiling looks quite creepy. And then I realised it looks like Fenella the kettle witch and I can’t unsee it…. #ShowingMyAge www.dailymotion.com/video/x9mamuk

Face like shadow on ceiling cast by ceiling lampshade

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 07/09/2025

Poorly dog had her first walk off lead post-op yesterday. Happy faces all round. (Off lead until she saw the chicken, that is. She completely missed the frozen 🐿️)

Dog mooching in foreground, church in background

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 31/08/2025

Wait, here is the yarn - the left hand balls, not the orangey one.

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 17/08/2025

Hexi-cardi complete. 15 seems pleased. It was pretty easy - but very boring - to make!

Picture of teenager (face blurred) modelling hexi-cardigan

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 04/08/2025

I have finished the blanket! Complete with plain hunt bellringing strip (a proper method proved too complicated for my crochet skills). Teenager 1 is very pleased. Teenager 2 is now expecting a hexicardi… no rest for the wicked…

Brightly coloured and almost imperceptibly wonky hand crocheted blanket

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 26/07/2025

Enough blanket construction for one night! Bedtime!

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 13/07/2025

They are lovely, but I confess I am getting slightly irritated / mildy phobic now as they won’t leave me alone!

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 13/07/2025

We are being SWARMED by ladybirds! The air is thick with ‘em. Got ‘em in my hair, on my clothes, phone & down my bra just venturing around the garden to snap pics! They seem to leave me alone when I’m in the shade tho. Hubby got bit by one this morning. The fennel is a fave 4 ladybugs & hoverflies.

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 09/07/2025

I mean, if an internet meme was a valid diagnostic tool (yes, yes, I know it’s not) then I 200% have ADHD. This was made to describe me!!

Pie chart labelled : ADHD: why i interrupt people. Shows large slices for random interesting things, say it now or it’s GONE FOREVER, your story reminded me of 8 other things and 5% slice for I thought it was my turn.

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 03/07/2025

Reader, I had to google “mochi icecream” to work out if the purple rubbery bit was edible before deciding to eat it. It was edible and quite tasty….and not in fact made of the insides of a discarded squash ball as I had initially feared…

A plate of dessert - four halves of purple balls with orange innards with a strangely erect shard of strawberry as a centrepiece.

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 27/06/2025

All my blanket pieces laid out…was about to join them but now we (me & 17 who its for) have decided it needs something unique rather than just slavishly following the pattern…. So I’m now attempting to make two bellringing slips showing plain hunt. Will probably involve a crochet /weaving combo.

Assorted crochet strips in hot pink, blue, turquoise and navy laid out on a table

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 27/06/2025

Yesterday and today’s sunny walks with dog and boy. Much needed fresh air and a chance to decompress after a frankly rotten couple of weeks…a bit creeped out by the ?ladybird larvae? though…

Hillside with boy and dog, sea in background

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 22/06/2025

Tower grabbed at an interesting little church today (St Martin’s, Fiddington). Freshly painted I think. Beautifully white. Also, gotta love an emerald sally with a yellow stripe. The young ringers practiced their competition piece for the national young ringerd comp in July. #GoBath&Wells

Church with white tower and clockface. Graveyard in foreground.

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 21/06/2025

Today was a day where I *really* needed a Saturday lie in. Instead its 10.30 & I’ve already been for an MRI (bad knee), realised the MRI unit was only a street over from where dad grew up, had a little cry about dad and been to Tesco. Now staring blankly at screen trying to focus on work. So tired.

my dad, sitting on a ledge aged about 4 or 5

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 14/06/2025

Forgot pic! Here it is in the pan…

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Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk · 13/06/2025

I only popped out to pick a few gooseberries…one giant sack of brambles later I have rescued the suffocating loganberries and the rhubarb. Having a rest now. May arms look like I’ve been in a fight with a cat!

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