The weather has lost its summer feel and we are back to rain and wind. This is not good because today we found a slate has slipped on the roof and its a couple of days until someone can come and access the damage.
The birds are loving the new front feeder and we are visited by sparrows starlings and baby blue tits. They all seem to live in the tree outside our house and the one opposite.

This little chap was hanging for ages nibbling away then was not sure how to fly of just let go and hoped for the best


The starlings are great bullies and squabble like naughty children. Occasionally a bird will come across from the tree and his mate on the feeder will fly off with him. You can imagine the conversation "Mum says you've got to come home right now"

I have been quite busy sewing wise I have painted my witches face and now have to work out a way of attaching the lengths I have for her hair. I have an idea I want to try out for something a bit different.

I have made a small hanging and used the fabric, buttons and thread from the colour exchange I participated in a while back


I am pleased with it. The cat pattern is from the same set as This House is Blessed with a Cat.But the paws I mine (well not mine, I have hands, but you know what I mean)

Talking of cats Tia is spending the majority of her day on the window sill bird watching


Until the weekend I did not have any personal knowledge of any one with swine flu. There are several cases at John's work Then I had a phone call from the daughter say she has succumbed. Several colleagues and pupils at her school have it. She has asthma so is taking tammiflu. So I hope its straightforward and she doesn't get any complications. Libby is well known for complications! Nothing is ever straight forward where she is concerned She came six weeks early and its gone on from there.

Its lovely being school free, the main part knowing the phone will not ring to send me off some where. One of the last comments asked what I would do if I didn't supply teach. Well that is the big question, teaching was my major career change, I am 58, it's a recession, so nothing looks too hopeful. I shall have to take it a bit at a time and see what happens.

It has been a good week for sport. So good in fact that I had to keep taking bits of sewing down stairs to do in front of the tv to see the Tour de France. I could listen to the cricket on the radio. Then yesterday the cricket was over by lunchtime, Le Tour was a rest day and I did'nt have any sewing that needed the machine, typical!

I have plenty to keep me busy over the next few weeks and John has some holiday soon

Thanks for dropping by and the comments are always welcomed

Finished

I have finished Ye Olde Chocolate Shoppe. I am pleased with it. But have not decided yet on what to do with it. Frame or fabric? So I am going to leave it for a while before I decide.


This house is blessed with a cat is now hanging up. It has replaced Spring which replaced the Snowman which replaced Autumn above the door.


This is me wearing the hat. I took the photo using photobooth on the mac so its not very good.


I have plenty to do two dolls on the go that might go into challenges, another hanging using another part of the This house is blessed pattern and some x stitch for a swap.

A couple of weeks ago we fitted some feeders outside the bedroom window. We wondered if the birds would find them and they did. To start with it was mainly fledgling starlings but over the last few days we have seen sparrows and a baby blue tit. The collar dove has been sitting on the window sill picking up crumbs


Tia has thought this is all wonderful and pulled down the net curtain for a better view.


This is the last week of term and financially its better than I thought it would be. I can fund the holidays and the first few weeks of next term. But it looks as though supply teaching as we know it is coming to an end and non teaching staff will be covering for short-term absent teachers.

I shall leave the worry of that for a few weeks and concentrate on six weeks of mornings when I don't dread the phone ringing/not ringing.

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July is here already

At the beginning of July John and I celebrate our wedding anniversary. We have now been married 16 years. In some ways it seems ages ago and in others hardly anytime at all. We have been together for nearly 20 years now, we have things we both love and others that one of us likes. In many ways our tastes are similar. Each year we buy cards and small gifts for our anniversary and our special day in December. We have never bought each other the same thing or cards until this anniversary. When we chose the same card. ( I knew I should've made one) We have often joked that the chance of this happening was likely.
I received a brilliant
present
John is really good at finding brilliant gifts.

After a meal of pasta and a very scrummy chocolate dessert we caught the bus into town to go to the Alhambra theatre to see Dorian Gray

You can see from the video clip that it is a modern production performed as a ballet. I thoroughly enjoyed it.


I haven't done anything creative since last Wednesday due to work and other things but the edging is now on my cat wall hanging and once the elastic is stitched that will be finished

Thanks for all the comments last time