Daffy's 'patchwork dreams' diary

Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Thanks KC Just been on the city farm website and it's all bouncy castles and face painting today, so I'm thinking a quiet afternoon sewing at a friend's house instead

Pippilongstocking

YAY to cheery sewing with a chum, I so enjoyed making bunting with you!

Have a lovely day lady! The chickens say hi!

MrsMoo2U

Like the idea of a quiet sewing day.

Cheery_Daff

It was fab actually Went to the community garden round the corner, had an outside lunch with about 12 others of parsnip and carrot soup, veggie tart, salad, crumble etc - all fruit and veg grown in the garden :T :T How lovely. Shame I couldn't stay longer actually (although then I would have got roped into moving water butts - definitely not a calm day :rotfl:) Spent a few hours knitting and chatting at friend's house instead. Now home and getting into sleepover mode, about to go for a nice walk through the showers

Hope you're all having jolly day

Karmacat

Oh Cheery, that sounds a much nicer day than your overnight at A&E! How lovely! Your sleepovers sound so romantic .... have a lovely time.

Cheery_Daff

Thanks KC Sleepovers don't have to be romantic! Often end up just with a cuppa and a film - it's more about making time just for us without us pottering about doing other things. Helps us stay connected and both in the same place - which I suppose *is* quite romantic really...

Speaking of which, we were going to go for a walk and it's going to go dark before we've done it at this rate!

And where's that Squizz - she's got a lot to answer for that girl... :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

MrsMoo2U

Oh dear, does that mean you bought a saxophone

hypno06

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Helps us stay connected and both in the same place - which I suppose *is* quite romantic really...

Damned right it is

Cheery_Daff

Tis indeed Hypno, realised how daft I was being when I'd said it

(and yes I'm sneaking on here quickly while the kettle's boiling Having a lovely evening though, a nice long walk, a good theraputic chat, a daft film :j :j :j :j)

And no, I couldn't quite justify a saxophone.


It's a clarinet :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

But in my defence....

I've been feeling pretty cheery about musical things recently Having been taught classically at school, I've never been one to experiment, didn't play really for 14 years after leaving school, spend 6 years living with Mr Daffs (who spends all his life doing musical things) and surrounded by musicians, and I was too shy to join in

The past few weeks I decided to stop thinking I *should* be brave enough to join in, and did what I'd wanted to do for a while but thought was a bit daft, and started having lessons. Blimey I'm absolutely loving it, and playing at home too, and experimenting a bit and everything :T Just needed a little push and to do things in my own way.

And now I think I'm finally starting to understand why Mr Daffs has a house full of mad instruments, only some of which get played :rotfl: :rotfl: because it's FUN, that's why! :rotfl: :rotfl: There was me thinking I couldn't experiment with anything else because 'I don't play the one I CAN play, so I'm not allowed to start anything else'... :rotfl: What nonsense! :rotfl: :rotfl:

So, I can't play the clarinet, but who cares? I shall make a joyful noise until I *can* play it. And who cares if I never play it outside my bedroom???

So this is a daft spontaneous purchase. I've done no research, I haven't even talked to my professional clarinet-playing friend who I saw this afternoon about it. I'm buying it off ebay, it's almost certainly a completely entry level clarinet, probably bashed around by some small child and may not even work properly. I don't care. I've set myself a budget of £40 including postage, I'm not getting involved in any mad bidding wars, I've just lost one and have got the second one ending at 11, and I'm *excited* :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: