A day for dead-heading

 

There you go.  The first 50 blocks done and sewn up to plain white squares.  Hopefully I am over halfway there now.  I think I need to order more white though.  Quite pleased with myself.

Accurately pieced too. (For once!!)

Today I must crack on out in the garden, dead heading roses, weeding, potting on tomatoes and taking either tomatoes or cucumbers up to the polytunnel to carry on flowering/fruiting as too many in the greenhouse.  Perhaps cucumbers would be best up there as they need stringing up and more room in the polytunnel.  Tam's Cantaloupe melons need to go up there too.

I had an invitation from my neighbour to come up for tea, to meet his family who had come down for a couple of days and were staying in an Air b'n'b just up the road.  That was a lovely evening (I had baked them a Chocolate Apple cake). Lots of chatting and great admiration for the wonderful wool embroidered picture his mum was making.  It was gone 8.30 when I returned - no Pippi.  Called and called.  No Pippi.  9 p.m. she finally decided to come home.  Little ratbag.  She is NOT allowed out at night - nor is Lulu who is fairly gormless as she is an Upstairs House Cat only - until she decides to disappear in the bushes on the bank which she did the night before, and she would NOT come out.  I had to stop playing "the game" and came in and then she gave up as it's no fun playing hide and seek with no one to try and find you!

Butter wouldn't melt . . .

As I had woken at 3.20, got up after lieing awake for an hour, had a nap later, I am surprised I managed anything at all yesterday.  Today I had a lie-in - till 5.30 . . .

Progress with the chairs.  The one on the right is nearly finished.  I gave it a 3rd coat of Boiled Linseed Oil yesterday.  Now it just needs a little polish with some wax.  The one on the left slurped up the oil - being in a dip tank is the worst possible fate for wood.  I am waiting to hear from my carpenter about the back splat, having sent him dimensions and a pattern.  I need him to show me how to fix the top bow too as in order to try and glue the upright in, someone sawed a notch to the bow to do so and now the upright has come unglued and the top is unsightly.  I Bri-waxed the stripped shelves on the bookcase I am sorting out too.  

3/4 way through The Mechanical Devil by Kate Ellis, and have been listening to some excellent podcasts on The Three Ravens, especially the long one about Cardiganshire.