You can never have enough...

[Lilith7]

I use a pencil on my boot zips every autumn when I give them their pre winter leather spa day. The graphite dust from the pencil makes the runners travel sweet and smooth. The worst problem I have with them is when the pulls finally give up, makes using my boot hook a bit challenging.

Your Madam and my Tatty know how to respond to a damp day popeye. Herself is curled up on the purple shiny hooded robe I have been gifted to recycle. It has the Queen trademark embroidered in gold on the back, it was a bit of fan merchandise from an Adam Lambert concert apparently. My friend thinks I should cut that out of the piece and stitch it onto my winter coat, I am thinking ' perhaps... '  but on the inside lol. Not brave enough to wear it as a gang patch!! I might have to make a cat cushion out of the rest for the Tatt, she really does like the slipperyness of that thing...

Yep, I do that as well on any sticking zip, works a treat.


The two eldest great granddaughters came to visit & the eldest (just turned 5) remembered virtually everything I'd showed her on the computer, enough to do two more paintings with a bit of help - all abstract at this stage of course. she has a good eye for colour too. Her wee sister wanted a turn but at 2 isn't really able to do it yet.

Finally started to rain properly, so glad I did stuff earlier, & no weeding blasted buttercups today - yay.