Saturday 28th June - phase 1 done

 Pat on the back! Gold star! Proceed to next level!

Here's the old table with a few boxes stacked on top. I've offered the tile cutter set, and indeed the actual table around our church. If there are no takers then off they go to charity. This was the state of play last week.

This morning, before the day heated up, BB cleared the boxes to... to... to somewhere else and dismantled the table. Then we, or rather, he hoovered the carpet AND the wall (!) and cleared the old desk in our bedroom. 

I have a feeling this desk dates back to the beginning of yhe last century, as we know that the country house it came from burned down in around 1905, give or take a few years, and this was rescued from the fire.

We dusted off the desk and moved it in. To our surprise we discovered that it has  matching false drawer fronts, including handles, at the back! Presumably it was designed to be a free standing table in the middle of a room.

Now it needs a more thorough dusting, and a proper polish. The plan is for this room to become a study / spare room, once we have excavated the accretion of stuff in and around and under and on top of the high sleeper bed on the other wall. 

All this clearing and shuffling is complicated by the fact that the room is 9nly about 8 feet by 8 feet!

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My Cover Story Collaboration stitching is now trundling across the country, and will probably cross paths with Ang's, as we both posted them at our respective post offices this morning.

I decided mine needed an extra addition, and quickly stitched away before posting. Only running stitches, so it didn't take long.

After many years of trying and failing to get on with traditional metal thimbles, I came across leather thimbles. What a game changer! Here's mine on one of my stubby fingers. 

It has made everything so much easier, and well worth investigating if you can't make a metal one work. I wondered if the eye of the needle would pierce the leather and stab my finger, but that hasn't happened in all the years I've been using it.

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Music

After reasonable temperatures this morning, this afternoon suddenly became so, so, hot. It's only now, at about 7.30pm, that I'm beginning to get any energy back!

Here's the first movement of the Serenade for Strings Dvorak as a suitably gentle way of easing into the evening. Or morning. Or afternoon or whatever time it is when you read this! I think this is op 22... there are so many serenades for strings I'm losing track.