Pat - I agree. Lovely design for a tapestry or cross stitch. I spent my day at patchwork class doing felt appliqué using blanket stitch and chain stitch which I haven't done since I was about 10 which is many decades ago. My hand started seizing up which I hope is just wear and tear from waving a paint roller about for 8 days.
Grey and cool here and set to get wet and windy tho not as much as originally forecast. Either way I'm on curtain altering and chair painting duties for Possum's apartment. The lift has broken - again - so we have to lug everything up 4 flights of stairs..........but she'll have plenty of light and a great view of Namur citadel which has lots of grass and trees so some greenery all year.
The farmers have been up till the small hours and out early again to harvest their wheat and gather in the straw bales before they all get soaked. No stubble burning here. It gets ploughed in and then they sow a green manure.
Our own garden is looking really very good considering I've not done much in it for weeks - apart from the veggie patch which has succumbed to slugs and never really got going this year with all that cold and rain earlier on.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Pretty design, Pat. I have a colouring book given to me for Christmas by my daughter, lots of beautiful flowers... I'm a bit afraid to start in case I spoil them...
Rain here too. OH has to go out this morning to buy... a sunhat! He's lost his, and having fair skin and what my dad described as "pink hair", definitely needs a replacement if the sun shines at all.
Kefalonia's on "the list" for some time, Yvie. Looks gorgeous! Have fun.
Hope the ribs don't cause too much bother, Fairy. Tis hard not to overdo it when you've got rock-hard ground to dig.
Glad you've got a TV sorted, Bushman. Onwards and upwards...
Nearly ready to leave for Ireland... which is sad since we're not going until this evening. Time to pick fruit & veg in the rain and give them to the neighbours, I think.
Have a good day folks!
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Joyce and Obelixx, you can see some of Johannas designs if you search Peta Hewitt or Johanna Basford on colouring books. Johanna is the artist (from Scotland) , and PETA is an Australian woman who colours in a lot of her work and does a critique of the books. They really are special designs.
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Morning Bushman. Pleased to hear you can tune in to Olympics now.
Progress Bushman. I know it's a cliché, but one day at a time. You're getting there.
I've been colouring in today, one of Johanna Basford books.
Weather is starting to close in after threatening all day.
That design would be good for a tapestry panel Pat.
Yvie - have a great holiday.
Pat - I agree. Lovely design for a tapestry or cross stitch. I spent my day at patchwork class doing felt appliqué using blanket stitch and chain stitch which I haven't done since I was about 10 which is many decades ago. My hand started seizing up which I hope is just wear and tear from waving a paint roller about for 8 days.
Grey and cool here and set to get wet and windy tho not as much as originally forecast. Either way I'm on curtain altering and chair painting duties for Possum's apartment. The lift has broken - again - so we have to lug everything up 4 flights of stairs..........but she'll have plenty of light and a great view of Namur citadel which has lots of grass and trees so some greenery all year.
The farmers have been up till the small hours and out early again to harvest their wheat and gather in the straw bales before they all get soaked. No stubble burning here. It gets ploughed in and then they sow a green manure.
Our own garden is looking really very good considering I've not done much in it for weeks - apart from the veggie patch which has succumbed to slugs and never really got going this year with all that cold and rain earlier on.
Morning all.
Pretty design, Pat. I have a colouring book given to me for Christmas by my daughter, lots of beautiful flowers... I'm a bit afraid to start in case I spoil them...
Rain here too. OH has to go out this morning to buy... a sunhat! He's lost his, and having fair skin and what my dad described as "pink hair", definitely needs a replacement if the sun shines at all.
Kefalonia's on "the list" for some time, Yvie. Looks gorgeous! Have fun.
Hope the ribs don't cause too much bother, Fairy. Tis hard not to overdo it when you've got rock-hard ground to dig.
Glad you've got a TV sorted, Bushman. Onwards and upwards...
Nearly ready to leave for Ireland... which is sad since we're not going until this evening. Time to pick fruit & veg in the rain and give them to the neighbours, I think.
Have a good day folks!
Joyce and Obelixx, you can see some of Johannas designs if you search Peta Hewitt or Johanna Basford on colouring books. Johanna is the artist (from Scotland) , and PETA is an Australian woman who colours in a lot of her work and does a critique of the books. They really are special designs.
Liri, have a look at the utube sites I mentioned above. It'll give you lots of confidence Peta explains the technique very well.
Morning all.
That looks complicated, Pat.
Cooler today, just wish it would rain, but not tomorrow. Going to Norfolk on Thursday. Hopefully the flower border has been rained on there.
Marinating the meat for the BBQ today and making a start on the salads.
You'll like it here Liri. It's really really wet.
Sunhat....I hope it's waterproof.
Have a great holiday.