Tuesday 3rd March - time to take a breather

 I totally want one of these if I ever need to start using a rollator....

Now, what was I really going to post....

This week's next habit to quiet your mind and live a calmer life is to spend 5 mins clearing your digital clutter.... dealing with old emails that can be deleted, going through photographs and screen shots that you don't need... whatever. Not a bad plan... my Google storage is slightly worryingly full, and 5 - 10 mins just going through and pruning would be a very sensible thing to do. Just a regular chipping away at the clutter is all that's needed.

Here's the next patchwork square, based on a pattern from a Saishiko book.

This is the book;

There are lots of lovely pattern ideas and starting points in it, and I can easily adapt them for other types of stitches.

My patch is the first one in the book; rows of offset running stitches which are interlaced. I used dark blue and variegated green perlé cotton. 

Hobbyart are now offering a £14 refund 'and you can keep the book' for their useless product. I'm staying strong, holding out for the full £18. 

Yesterday my 'three events per day' turned into a seemingly continuous stream of emails, phone calls and zooms... admittedly phoning my brother, and a regular monthly zoom weren't actually work but everything else was. 

So far today has been more measured!

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I love the Grieg piano concerto. I must have listened to my cassette of it hundreds of time when I was in my last couple of years at school.