You can never have enough...

[Lilith7]

morning ladies   It's going to be an indoor day today, the rain is bucketing down.

Sounds like you both had a ball, popeye We all need days like that.  And you found some gems in the op shops too.  I'm wondering what MrZ was thinking when he bought those snail shells, zoe lol.  Maybe he was planning on catching and cooking snails the French way.  I've tried them before and don't recommend lol. They were tough and rubbery and too much of a fiddle for this left hander to get out of the shells with the fancy tool provided.  I have another small pile of stuff to take to our community op shop (the one that was on TV1's Goodfellow segment a few weeks ago).  The last time I was there I found a glass dish that sits perfectly on the windowsill in the bathroom for the shampoo, conditioner and body wash.  I've been looking on and off for one exactly like it for a while now.  Cost us the princely sum of $2.

Last evening we watched 'The Thursday Murder Club' on Netflix.  Omg lmao, what a great movie with great actors.  Helen Mirren was at her acting best. 

I have one more corner to stitch and the hardanger piece will be finished.  With the weather the way it is today, I may even finish it.  Hopefully it will protect the little table from the sun and help prevent it from drying out so much.

I tried snails once years ago - a pain to get out of shells & mostly tasted of garlic, the sort of thing which is OK but won't bother with again.

Did our walk, Madame le Dog set quite a pace this morning for some reason known only to her; then again, she may have known it was about to rain, we just made it home before there were a few drops.
So no gardening today, never mind feeling quite virtuous after getting so much done yesterday, even transplanted a few more violets. If I only had the energy I had years ago, they'd all be done by now.

Messed about with a pastel drawing the other day & wasn't that keen on the result so did another in photoshop with some changes - definitely better. Have been doing one or two pastels lately & will have to get down to The Drawing Room for some non acidic tossue paper at some point, to cover them so they don't smudge.

A while ago I watched Code of silence streaming & it was really good, Rose Ayling-Ellis was excellent so have also watched  Reunion which featured her.

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I spent a lifetime being boring about clothes. Being boring about lots of things really, I think a lot of it was because I was a fifties girl child and while we watched and learned from all the social changes happening as we grew up, we were conditioned early to not make waves, to play nicely, and be quiet people in dress among other ways. And I did all that, mistakes, disasters, and all -sort of, with small rebellions, up until all of a sudden there was just me left with no responsibilities, no one to be well behaved for. And it was a revelation, a kind of awakening. And a really low point in what has been an 'interesting' life, lol.

So, I was faced with choices, and from among them I decided to follow my heart, say yes to new things, maybe scary risky things, and to see if I could live a different kind of life. A more creative one, a more self focused one, a less careful one. A taking control kind of one. And so far, I have few regrets about taking hold of that freedom, because it is a freedom to be in sole charge of my life with no one else to worry about. Including something as inconsequential as what I wear and why. Inconsequential, but great fun. And boy, have I had fun, because some of those choices have been much bigger than what I wear, but in the end, have given me exactly the same pleasure as a hand stitched and embellished second hand jacket...

Its good isn't it, when you reach the age where you no longer give a toss what others think of what you happen to wear...even if its only wearing a ridiculous (but warm!) Aztec hat for the dogwalk...

Its quite strange to reach a point in life where you're not constantly responsible for other people too.