Waiting for the vet to phone back . . . and update

 Not the afternoon I was planning as half an hour ago Pippi came in from outside panting very VERY fast and I'm worried that she has been stung by something - though I can't see any swelling on paws or face.  She and Lulu are terrors for catching flies . . .  I have spoken to the duty vet now, and now what to look for if she needs to be taken down to be examined.  Her gums are a good colour which is a positive.  It is possible she just met up with the stray tom out there in the long grass and Rosebay Willowherb - gosh, you could hide a Tiger in there!  Anyway, she's taken herself off to the washing basket in the Utility and although she's still hyper-ventilating, is washing herself and hopefully will calm down soon.  I'll do an update later.

Here she is in the paper recycling box . . .  She has eaten a meal and calmed right down again now, but doesn't like to be outside unless I am there.

Update: Well, it took her an hour to calm down - her breathing was SO incredibly fast I worried she would collapse.   I do think perhaps she met the tom and he chased her. Perhaps she won't wander through the hedge onto the track behind, which is where I saw her appearing from this past week.  There has been a new black and white (tom?) about - one who is used to cat flaps as I found him in the hall the other evening when I was going to lock up.  He exited but then sat on the step so is obviously someone's wandering cat.

The girls are both so small - never grew much beyond 6 mths really - they're now 9 mths.  Mother was starved when pregnant with them (feral) and Pippi was the runt of the litter.  Very relieve she seems ok again now.

These are the Flapjacks Keith had been asking for recently.  Just goes to show that a) I am not perfect (!) and b) this is what happens when you make a cake whilst something is in the oven.  In my defence, I'd not used this recipe before and forgot that the temperature for a fan oven wasn't given, therefore I should have adjusted it accordingly. I didn't. I shall try again tomorrow.

Fortunately the Chocolate Blackberry Brownies turned out well.

Anyway, back to the Quilts on display at Minerva Arts.  There were lots of framed "strippy" scenes too, like this lovely one, but the glass stopped them being suitable for photographing.

Below, to the right of the quilt:

A close-up of the damage down the years (stored badly one assumes), but perhaps just worn out before it got shoved in the bac of a cupboard.

I'm sorry, I didn't get an attribution for this, but isn't this rendering of Klimpt's painting of Adele Bloch-Bauer wonderful?

Nothing going on in the garden today.  I am allergic to something to the point that it is making my nose react, despite anti-histamines.  Then when I went around the corner of the house to look at my new plantings, I promptly got pounced on by a clegg and bitten (horse fly).  I have done a little bit of dead-heading and tidying, but I think I'll watch the racing and catch up on my reading.

The town had a noisy start as a leg of a car rally was set to start by the Strand.  The Groe was covered in support vehicles and caravans.  We could hear them doing roary gear changes up the snakey hills of the Eppynts.

Have a good weekend all.