Thursday 31 October 2024

Thursday 31st October

 There was a brief gleam of sunlight this morning, enough to catch my attention, but gone before I thought of going outside. 

I'd been out for a bit already, just to look around. Of course it wasn't long before I'd pulled a few weeds, tidied some pots, cleared a garden chair and brought it over to my veg patch. 

Spring next year MUST be better than this year, surely? Instead of trying to follow the 'Veg in One Bed' plan in 2025, I'm just going to grow what I want to, or what I want to grow. I'm feeling a bit more positive about the veg patch after half an hour in the fresh air.

At lunchtime Ang's Cover Story stitching dropped through the letterbox. She's found some fabric with vintage advertising printed on it, and cleverly embellished the pictures with a variety of stitches using variegated threads in Autumn colours, 

I love the way she decorated the face! I have no idea what lime water is but it sound horrible... for indigestion, maybe?

She included a Lent book which I'm definitely going to use. I have an idea of playing the Carol for each day through December.  I noticed on the back cover the blurb said the author is the pastor of a church in a town called Kalamazoo, in Michigan, USA. What an amazing name for a town!

This is the dedication page, clearly designed by a non-musician.


 It's the first line of the famous Carol 'Joy to the world'. If you sing the first line while following the notes, you will see what I mean 😁 


4 comments:

  1. Advent, not Lent!
    I know two things about Kalamazoo: The Glenn Miller Orchestra recorded a piece "I gotta a girl in kalamazoo" and the "kalamazoo system" was a form of data management involving punch cards first developed a century ago (and my mum and auntie Peggy were both adept in operating it)
    I did not recognise all the carols in the book

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    1. A voyage of discovery awaits! Have you used, or will you be using this book?

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    1. Yes, and I like the different thicknesses of the lines of stitches too.

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