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Ha, isn't it great to be an enabler

Quite worrying really, feel required to make things come out well. Orianna has a block about gridding, and always manages to mis count at some point. So guess who has to correct it...

Regards,

Richard.

A couple of weeks ago one of my students showed me her finished class project - when I told them they could design their own animal instead of the standard bunny, Emily chose a fox.

Love that fox! Actually, the whole piece is well put together.

Lovely

Nicely done! And that little fox is adorable. I saw a fox walking in front of the house a couple days ago and he looked just like that.

Three years ago, I stuck a nectarine pit in a pot and covered it with compost. Much to my utter amazement, it sprouted. It has stayed in the greenhouse over the winter and spent the summer and autumn outside against a south-facing wall ever since. Well, I have been rewarded with lovely, and very pink, blossom for the first time.

A lovely reward for your patience!

PS Where do you find the emojis?

The emojis are part of Safari (but I expect any such package will have them). Pull down edit, and it's the very bottom option. Double click, and there you are.

Patience, yes, but only in part. The little sapling was so pretty with its pointed leaves just by itself. I never thought it would actually bloom!

Well done with the Nectarine. The best we've managed is not to kill a Christmas Cactus for 15 years. It's no bigger than it was, and manages 3 or 4 flowers a year. The house is just too cold.

Regards,

Richard

Unexpected view from our bedroom window this morning....

Good vantage point to view an approaching car in order to be true to its calling as a kamikaze pheasant. At least, that's what the walls around here are for, so it stands to reason that a roof is Even Better.

I think you have totally captured the pheasant psyche there

We're not overly urban here, but not so rural that we get these visitors into our streets; there are some fields nearby and they tend to stick to those.

You have a sentry.

If anyone finds my stitchy bug hanging around can you give him a stern talking to and send him home please? preferably without mr Froggie. (I know WHY he's gone walkabouts I just cant do anything about it - covid + flu vaccinations and upheavals in work stressing everyone out - I think its going to get worse before it gets better)

I'm just coming to the end of a week off and I havent done a stitch. Havent done much of anything tbh with all the running around I'm doing. I am currently eyeing up the garden but the weather hasnt been the best and its still a bit wet to do any major trimming and spring preparation.......

I haven’t really been here in a while and a lot has happened. I’m going to start with good news.

My oldest grandson is going to become a daddy this year…make me a great-grandmother. I’ve told them, my name will be GiGi.

Congratulations Roland!

Arianwen, yours and mine both - we'll have to hunt them down, tie them up and drag them back kicking and screaming so we can get the right sort of infection again

Unfortunately I'm in a similar position in many ways.
I have been 'promoted' to Technical Manager in the company where I work and tend to be run ragged at work, coming home so tired virtually the only thing I want to do is sleep, however I have heaps of work to do at home and also try to look after my Dad's finances too, and support Tracy with dealing with her mum. Tracy's mum seems to be exhibiting a number of signs of early onset dementia - and tells strange stories to her carers to the extent they don't know if they are coming or going & want to confirm everything with Tracy.

Net result is my stitchy bug is asleep. Just too tired to come out.

Regards,

Richard

Oh dear, it is worrying when parents start saying odd things, especially to carers. Sometimes it doesn't much matter - a friend's mother insisted that her grandson, who was in the military and deployed overseas, had parachuted into her garden especially for her birthday. He was, in fact, on leave, but was indeed a paratrooper, so not a completely inexplicable tale. The family decided that if this story made her proud and happy, there really was no reason to tell her otherwise!

The last thing MIL said that caused concern , was that she'd run out of her blood pressure, anti-dizziness and heart drugs (and the four needed to counteract side-effects of the first three).

Instant panic on behalf of the carers who phoned Tracy.

No. MIL hasn't run out. MIL just 'forgot' the pile of drug boxes on her dining room table, and instead looked only in the bag of spares in her kitchen cupboard, most of which have run out and are on order for replacement this week.

Gaah

Regards,

Richard