Thursday 17th October

 Hurray! The bits I need for the October Cover Story Collaboration stitching arrived yesterday and I got going straight away. Now that I've made a start I've got a reasonable idea of how long it should take me to finish. Hopefully I'll get it done over the next week or so, in time to post at the end of the month.

And Hurry! The pattern for the very easy cardigan in super chunky yarn also arrived yesterday. I've spent some time browsing the super chunky yarns but not made up my mind yet. I'm encouraged by how few stitches are needed, just 52 for the back. Excellent. 

The Elizabeth Zimmerman Adult version of the famous Baby Surprise Jacket which I picked up again last week currently has about 180 stitches, and I'm still in the 'increases' section, adding four stitches every other row. I think I keep going until I have 244. Each row takes forever...

And now for The Rant...

Honestly, the background music in The Repair Shop is INSANELY INANE. Are they mending a clock? Cue the ticky tocky pizzicato strings. Are they mending a doll? Obviously glockenspiel music is needed. Some kind of spinning thing? Let's have round and round music. 

I'm finding the background music simplistic and annoying enough, but then, because they switch from item to item every few moments, they switch the background music too!

Robot  doll  clock  whirlygig 

 stop Stop STOP with the aural nonsense!

Rant over.

I'll creep back into my corner now...

Wednesday 16th October

 This poem by Thomas Hardy blew me away. The idea that just 'a year ago, or less than twain' these song birds were 'only particles of grain, And earth, and air, and rain.' is just astonishing to contemplate.

Tuesday 15th October

 After a relaxing day yesterday I wound up my oxygen to max and tackled a job that's been winding me up for weeks...

The kitchen windowsill was in desperate need of a clean. Now just look at the shine! If cleanliness really was next to godliness I'd be very close to heaven. 

I bought those brown Betty teapots in my first term at university, nearly 50 years ago. That makes them almost vintage teapots!

I've discovered that cillit bang power degrease spray does a good job on windows as well. I think they've dried without streaking. 

I stop and admire the improvement every time I go into the kitchen. 

This is the little pile of notebooks (and also my kindle) that I continually carry around from the settee in the sitting room to my tiny worktable in the dining room.

From top to bottom;

Pencil/pen case, kindle, current Commonplace Book, books was notebook and daybook where all sorts of notes, lists, phonecalls etc get jotted down.

Although the stack does vary according to what I'm planning to do!