Put your arms around me

For when I’m not in the house to snuggle.

I made him a cardie

I didn’t think he’d wear it.

‘please can you add pockets.

‘Please can you add buttons

This is a whole different reaction to the jumper I made him back in 1987 when I thought he’d be cold when he came home from A Seven month tour of the Gulf; it was blue and green and turquoise.

And stitched together with big black stitches.

He spilt mayonnaise down it on Christmas Day and consigned it to the drawers