25-11-2022, 07:55 AM
Spent yesterday evening happily winding odd balls of fluffy stuff into smaller matching balls after getting one of my bargain parcels from TM. I have an idea for one of those mad coloured stripy mohair cardies for next winter, so have been buying up odd ball auctions and dividing the spoils into fours to make sure some kind of order can be imposed upon the madness. The trick will be to balance the different plies, but that will make things interesting.
And that after pulling out the overgrown and very non productive sweetpeas yesterday, too rich a compost layer I suspect made them too tall and too subject to wind disasters. I need that space for my blueberries, with a view to increased lack of flexibility in coming years getting sensible with more permanent well thought out plantings seemed a good idea. And next week will get busy with my ailing acquaintance moving from her wee flat into a rest home as her health fails, I will need to be free to sort out her stuff for her to boost the kitty for those last expenses. She has decided stoicism is no longer an option and her preferred choice for resthome has three rooms for her to choose from so she's off next Monday. I am relieved for her because she has been struggling for a while now, so much weight loss and too much ill days making daily tasks just too hard, and immensely frustrating for a previously active social soul. Time for her to be looked after, and the nurse manager is looking forward to having a resident who still has all her marbles apparently!
And within scooting distance, so I can still pop in if she wants company though these days we talk mostly on the phone, village tales and minor venting about lifes quirks. Plenty of village life around at the moment, with contractors everywhere, refurbing an empty unit (new kitchen and bathroom went in yesterday much to my disgust - I want one of each, lol), and then coming in to put ground water membranes under each unit, more of the healthy homes thing. Being on a slope with lots of concrete around we are wondering in we'll end up with swimming pools in the basements, but we will see...
And that after pulling out the overgrown and very non productive sweetpeas yesterday, too rich a compost layer I suspect made them too tall and too subject to wind disasters. I need that space for my blueberries, with a view to increased lack of flexibility in coming years getting sensible with more permanent well thought out plantings seemed a good idea. And next week will get busy with my ailing acquaintance moving from her wee flat into a rest home as her health fails, I will need to be free to sort out her stuff for her to boost the kitty for those last expenses. She has decided stoicism is no longer an option and her preferred choice for resthome has three rooms for her to choose from so she's off next Monday. I am relieved for her because she has been struggling for a while now, so much weight loss and too much ill days making daily tasks just too hard, and immensely frustrating for a previously active social soul. Time for her to be looked after, and the nurse manager is looking forward to having a resident who still has all her marbles apparently!
And within scooting distance, so I can still pop in if she wants company though these days we talk mostly on the phone, village tales and minor venting about lifes quirks. Plenty of village life around at the moment, with contractors everywhere, refurbing an empty unit (new kitchen and bathroom went in yesterday much to my disgust - I want one of each, lol), and then coming in to put ground water membranes under each unit, more of the healthy homes thing. Being on a slope with lots of concrete around we are wondering in we'll end up with swimming pools in the basements, but we will see...