The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

pollyanna_26

Hopefully they'll realise the gaps are too extreme NM. I'm still getting them.I've never tried enlarging posts but it looks as though some adjustments are needed to make it usable for all on the threads.

pollyx

maisiek

Florenceem I have tried to teach myself to crochet so many times but I just can't get my head around it. All I can seem to make is blankets and I have been working on one for daughter for a couple of years now. She is 3 so it might be done when she is 30!

pollyanna_26

maisiek said:

Florenceem I have tried to teach myself to crochet so many times but I just can't get my head around it. All I can seem to make is blankets and I have been working on one for daughter for a couple of years now. She is 3 so it might be done when she is 30!

When I was in primary school we made long chains of crochet which we then had to coil into round table mats. My mum and others got fed up with the never ending mats. It put me off crochet for years.

My first husband and I had a church wedding booked for a Friday in late June 1969- we were booked into a hotel on the following day on the IOM.

About a week before the weather forecast for the wedding day was snow. I laughed but then began to worry about my little bridesmaid whose homemade dress had elbow length sleeves. I ran to the wool shop intending to knit her a cape but no suitable patterns.

I bought some lovely white crepe yarn with a sheen and what was then called Rabbit wool along with a fairly thick crochet hook and began practicing double and treble  crochet. I made it up as I went along and in a couple of days had a cape a few inches above her knees with slots in the rabbit wool for white satin ribbon at the neck- another run to the wool shop - the front edges and bottom were rabbit wool and she thought she was the bees knees.

We had a flurry of snow as I was getting in the wedding car and a heavier fall as we came out of church. It made for some amazing summer wedding photos, snow in June.

As an adult looking at the wedding album she berated me for the lovely broderie anglaise dress, the white bonnet covered with fabric flowers with white satin ribbon tied in a bow. Very fashionable in the 60s and the cape.

Meanwhile as the wool name became angora rather than rabbit wool I worried whether it was from cared for uk angora rabbits or the chinese rabbits who mainly had short sad lives.

With all the mills back then churning out wool I finally decided it was probably quite local from happy rabbits.

The thing with crafts is to face the fear and do it anyway.

pollyx

MingVase

I remember walking along Princes St in Edinburgh in June of 69 in the snow

monnagran

Gosh Pollyanna, I don't remember snow in late June.  I do remember snow in early June one year in the fifties.

In contrast to that, I married on the hottest day of the year.  I was getting married from a friend's beautiful old house close to the church where the future Mr Monna was the church organist.  We were having the reception in the garden.  Tables were out under the trees the night before and the sandwiches, rolls etc were placed on them before we left for the church.  By the time we got back they were toasted.  The guests arrived gasping for drinks, the best man was busy issuing glasses of champagne until someone stopped him and produced jugs of water which folk had to drink a wine glass at a time as we hadn't thought to provide large glasses.
I remember the bell ringers, who had nobly rung a quarter peal in our honour, arriving at the reception in a state of collapse and having to be revived with cold towels.
This was in August and we could have really, really done with a snow shower.

My word.  The strange subjects we cover here.

No heart wave here today, we are expected to rise to the dizzy heights of 4° this afternoon.


THOUGHT FOR SUNDAY 

Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in the way you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me how much you love all his children.  Before you preach to me of your passion for your faith, teach me of it through the compassion you have for your neighbours.
In the end I'm not as interested in what you have to tell or sell, as in how you choose to live and give.      (Cory Booker)

nursemaggie

I was in Singapore in 1969. My mum never mentioned it in her weekly letters.

It snowed on June 4th I think in1975. Next door but one came home early from their holidays.The next day was very very hot.

annieb64

Snowed in early June in 1977 too. We were camping in Wales and woke up to snow topped  mountains! 

I believe a cricket match in Buxton had to be called off due to snow in June too.

greenbee

I think it must have been must have been 1975 that my mum was talking about. 

nannywindow

It snowed on Good Friday in '74 ( Wales ) I had just bought my first car and brought it home the day before but was unable to go anywhere for about a week

I married during a bakery worker's strike in '77 and was having a buffet, so no sandwiches 🙄 However our local independent bakery came through providing us with hot baked rolls. I was so worried because I'd also ordered my 3 tier wedding cake from there too so there was a huge sigh of relief to see the baker's van arriving.

pollyanna_26

There was snow in parts of London and some other southern parts in early 69 too so I've been told.

When I got married I was living a lot further down the coast from here. I could look over to the Welsh mountains from the window.

pollyx