Amalgamation

 I've got the car back from the garage, and I can cope with Porlock Hill again now - but only if I am driving.  Couldn't blardy walk up there - I think it's a 1 in 4 hill.  (That's a 25% grade in American terms).   No worries anyway, as it's in the West Country and haven't been down that way for many a long year.   I have had problems with the handbrake on the car - it just wouldn't hold on a steep hill.  The car was overdue an oil change anyway, so got both things attended to at the same time.  I was surprised when I put the handbrake on and it only came up less than a cm!  Phew.  I had to drive into a very steep driveway on a narrow lane on the way back from Tam's recently and thought I'd end up going through their gate!

Without a car and knowing I was going to have to walk to the garage to collect it later, I sat down after breakfast and started stitching the two single quilts together.  I will need to put a nice binding on it too, later.  I am using a tiny 1" quilting needle and tiny stitches on the tiny 1 1/2" hexies.  I have sewn about 2 1/2 feet of it now.

I have been rewatching Outlander from the start to keep me amused.  I sped up through the bit where Jamie is flogged though.  Looking at her gorgeous wedding dress, I really don't know how it stayed up.  It must have been glued in place!! It's nice to get lost in history, and forget about the current world worries.  Though, to be said, it was so good to see Trump starting to get his comeuppance . . .

I have tried to keep the heating off most of the day.  I had it on for an hour and a half first thing, then half an hour at lunchtime.  Alfie was looking cold though so I made him up the small hotty botty which I put under the quilt on the sofa where he was.  He snuggled up onto that.  Pippi was snuggled beside me and if she'd had her way, would have been inside the quilts as usual.   It's 15.3 deg in the kitchen, not warm - not quite 60 deg. Fahrenheit, so I will put the heating back on shortly.

I filled up with diesel on Monday, but prices haven't gone up yet.  Perhaps the situation with  America v. Iran will now calm down a bit and prices may even drop.  We are ALL paying for that war.  If only this Government would stop trying to destroy farmers and destroy farmland, for we are getting into dangerous territory.

Right, back to Outlander and the quilts.