The title, by the way, is what these blardy antibiotics do to me. Just as well I live alone as heck, shall we just say you can hear where I am in the house! However, I AM feeling better so mustn't complain.
My little helper Pipsqueak!! Quilt border now restitched (hand quilting), quilt washed, ironed and priced ready for the next Fair, which is actually MUCH sooner than imagined as I have been offered a double stall at a Pre-Christmas Fair in December. Yippee. All my old friends there too (I was going to write "our" friends . . .) Below, this is it before I started work on it - on my king size bed, so a very generous double (80"x 84").
I am feeling better today, and have some energy- that's what eating a proper meal does for you. I had a Tesco Chicken and Black Bean offering last night (with Egg Fried Rice - egg apparently an optional extra as not obviously IN the rice) but hey-ho, it was tasty and I ate the lot AND an ice cream cone for dessert, so that is real progress. Having food in my tummy got rid of the nausea too.
I have had a leisurely start to the day, finished the JD Kirk novel, Blood and Treachery, which is a murder mystery set in Scotland (one of a series with DCI Jack Logan as the main protagonist) - sent to me by my friend Gay, and very enjoyable.
I have done SOME work - deep cleaned the bathroom, vacuumed upstairs, moved some of Tam's "bags of stuff" into her old bedroom (and out of my sewing room) and put the quilt in the top photo into a storage bag with its details and price tag, ready for the Fair. I will be taking four quilts. I have washed up and hung up yesterday's washing, which I forgot to do yesterday. I have sorted out some of "I" 's non perishable toys (plastic farm yards etc) which can then go out into the Summer House for the winter. There are about 6 or 7 boxes of her toys around the house and I don't need this additional clutter - not to mention her dismantled single bed and mattress, small chest of drawers, 3 drawer storage box, BIG chest of drawers in the kitchen etc, and that's before we get to all Tam's stuff!
I have also been researching a WWI German Luftwaffe photo album, which also has the pilot's small wearable medal display strip attached to it. Keith got it in a deal, pre-Covid, for an old musket he had. I thought he'd been ripped off at the time, but research shows I was wrong and it is actually quite collectable and worth more than the price he had on the musket. He usually got it right!
Off to watch (as it's daylight!) a couple more episodes of The Burning Girls and do some hand stitching - attaching hexi's to that unfinished quilt.
This is an encouraging update. I checked earlier and was concerned to find you hadn't [yet] posted. Do you suppose the black beans contributed to your 'explosions?' Taking antibiotics becomes such an unhappy circle--needed for infection but totally destroying one's gut.
ReplyDeleteI've taken out a quilting project begun during the covid shutdown--intended as a 'quilt-as-you-go' experiment to use only supplies on hand. Not very pleased with it but it needs to be done and out of the way. Needless to say, I have considerable feline assistance.
I'm glad you are extending the life of those vintage quilts with your careful work.
No, probably didn't help, but this started the moment I had this last change of antibiotics. Mending now anyway, and I think the middle dose of antibiotics didn't suit me at all. I have yoghurt in the fridge and will have some in a little while with some fresh raspberries I bought.
DeleteI too have been quilting whilst watching The Burning Girls, which was excellent and an ending you would not imagine (well, I didn't anyway!) Of course, Pippi "helped" by keeping the quilt warm and slowing my sewing progress :)
It sounds like you have been VERY busy, amazing what some food in the tummy can do to help you start feeling more like yourself isn't it. You're just like me, watching the scary things earlier on and then something more calming before bed. Last night I watched GBBO just before bed, Alison's topple off the workbench had me in stitches.
ReplyDeleteHaven't watched Bakeoff for years. This series wasn't TOO terrifying, just mildly scarey, but after dark . . . your nerves play on you! I often watch archaeology at bedtime - at least any dead bodies there have been dead a few centuries!
DeleteI haven't been that busy. Just pushed the vacuum up and down a bit and scrubbed the bath, loo and sink. Not nearly enough steps have been done.
What good news this is, Jennie!!! So glad to see you perking up. Those quilts are things of beauty. Can I ask a question? What do things like that run, pricewise, where you are? Here, handmade quilts would go for hundreds of dollars. Literally.
ReplyDeleteYes, on the mend now. Thedouble quilt I restitched the border on, I have priced at £75, as the lady who made it pieced it nicely but had a bit of a failure with the hand-quilting. GOOD hand-made Welsh quilts make hundreds. The two single quilts with edges I will offer at £48 each. My research shows I can get £38 - £40 on Ebay. I have a hand-sewn Laura Ashley 1980s fabrics (royal blue and white) Hexi quilt which I used myself for a while and then offered for sale at gradually lowering prices (starting at £75). Gave up when I got to £50. It's a difficult colour to match in a house.
Deletethank goodness you are feeling better! As for your explosions, thank goodness that's all they are as a friend recently had much worse side effects!
ReplyDeleteYup - I only had to test my running skills once, I'm relieved to say!
DeleteGlad you are bouncing back , I’m adamant that one feels better when one’s surroundings are in order/clean etc even just the satisfied feeling of getting a room spick and span is a boost x I’d love to see photos of the German album J. Danette x
ReplyDeleteFeeling almost normal now, which is a great improvement. I couldn't even bring myself to sew this past week. One tidy room, others need improvement yet . . .
DeleteI will email you some of the photos. Tam's Jon (who was a militaria specialist working for a company specializing in militaria sales) reckons it is worth about 4 times what I thought!
Glad you are starting to feel better. The quilt is my colours. I am on drugs that cause me the same issues, I now drink a glass of Kefir every day which is helping.
ReplyDeleteWhen that quilt was first marketed, HOW I would have loved to have bought it, but we were having to be careful with our money then. Ah well, I got it in the end and even got to sew it a bit too. I can't drink fermented milk - turns me inside out.
DeleteGlad you are feeling perkier. The quilts are beautiful. It is always so satisfying to mend something, especially when it's something beautiful. The album sounds like a real find. I collect trench art (yeah, not very girly, I know!) and my husband collects embroidered silk postcards, so I have seen card albums from the time, but I can't remember ever seeing a photograph album, let alone a German one. I think Keith has left you a little treasure there :)
ReplyDeleteYes, much. I love to restore textiles - Keith was the same with antiques, as he was so good with wood. The album was a VERY good deal - no flies on Keith! I knew nothing about it so thought he's been ripped off, but it would appear NOT! Thank you my darling man. I will put a couple of photos up.
DeleteProbiotics!!
ReplyDeleteYup. Will do Miss. Have to say, the D-Mannose seemed to help.
DeleteThe quilts are lovely. One thought occurred to me, did your doctor or your pharmacist (or do you call them your chemist?) tell you if you can have dairy while taking them? I’ve learned some antibiotics don’t work as well when you eat dairy That could be causing gas.
ReplyDeleteI've read the printed notes with the antibiotics and it doesn't mention avoid dairy. Not that I had been eating dairy anyway (it was the dry bread and cucumber regime!!) - just a splash of milk in a cup of tea twice a day. Soon be off them anyway.
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