21-10-2024, 10:27 AM
I would like to go back, but last time I googled there was a permit to demolish on record for our first house, and I know it would break my heart to see that gone. I'd rather pretend it is still there with all those memories, and ghosts intact. Sometimes the past is a friendlier country to live in.
On the homefront though my naughty spend up on TM was delivered yesterday - who knew Aramex delivered on a Sunday? Today when the boring stuff is done I get to do a very basic clean up on the prettiest little turquoise portable Smith Corona typewriter from 1967 before I send it off to a friend who will bring the innards up to working status and put in a new ribbon for me. It is so lightweight I will be able to easily carry it instead of one of my journals - I am really enjoying adding typed writing to the altered books as well as continuing with that life saga. And my typing skills are improving again, still one fingered, but fewer mistakes!
The other project now underway is building a little outdoor pond in one of those Chinese watergarden pots, I am going to transfer some of the lilies and any of the little fish I miss in this week's aquarium rehoming catch to that container. I tested it with some plants and snails over the last winter and the water temp never dropped below double figures so I know they can manage that.
Keeps life interesting, all these little projects.
On the homefront though my naughty spend up on TM was delivered yesterday - who knew Aramex delivered on a Sunday? Today when the boring stuff is done I get to do a very basic clean up on the prettiest little turquoise portable Smith Corona typewriter from 1967 before I send it off to a friend who will bring the innards up to working status and put in a new ribbon for me. It is so lightweight I will be able to easily carry it instead of one of my journals - I am really enjoying adding typed writing to the altered books as well as continuing with that life saga. And my typing skills are improving again, still one fingered, but fewer mistakes!
The other project now underway is building a little outdoor pond in one of those Chinese watergarden pots, I am going to transfer some of the lilies and any of the little fish I miss in this week's aquarium rehoming catch to that container. I tested it with some plants and snails over the last winter and the water temp never dropped below double figures so I know they can manage that.
Keeps life interesting, all these little projects.