The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

Suffolksue

What’s a wip? That shawl is beautiful 

nannywindow

Suffolksue I had to look that one up too. I think it means work in progress but I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

Floenceem  your makes are wonderful, lovely colours too. I'm really jealous as my bad eye sight and shaky hands get in my way nowadays and I love to craft. 

Florenceem

Suffolksue - yes - a crafter term. We also use - ufo - unfinished object.
nannywindow - thanks - I pray that I can carry on crafting for years yet.

boultdj

Lovely colours.
Baking day for me is what has happened, should keep us going for the week.

nursemaggie

wips tend to mean something you started and never finished. Often years ago. It can mean something you started and did not finish because it was no longer relevant. e.g. I started two reindeer last December, those that will sit on a shelf, I put the away in a basket on Christmas eve.

I have been given a pack of wool containing a few inches of knitting of a child's jumper, said child is probably grown up by now. I have a collection of not quite finished cuddly toys because I can no longer press hard enough to put the eyes in them. I've been waiting for my DD to visit.

Due to covid the family have not visited since early November 2019.  

VJsmum

Beautiful crafting Florence 

We've been painting the back of the house.  Taken all day to get two coats on it.  Looks a lot better and saved us a fortune by doing it ourselves.   Though I do get nervous when OH is up ladder. 

camelot1001

Beautiful Florence.

Allotmenteering for me. It's a community garden so weeded my own beds then helped someone else, had to weed my own garden when I got home, bit of an outside day really.

Just have some rhubarb soaking in sugar ready to make rhubarb and ginger jam.

Suffolksue

I I have a lot of UFOs at the moment-my term for Unidentified Freezer Objects !!

mothernerd

I've been getting the mattress back in line with the bed base - it was coming adrift on both the wall side and the wall at the head end. I think things fall down, make a space, more follow and as the gap gets wider larger objects fall down. I think I only did a part job last time. The bed and drawers are very heavy (filled with all mum's extra bedding). What falls down the side of a bed - small bits of paper, scissors, tissues, money, seed packets, lolly sticks (saved for plant labels)empty bottles, books, pens and pencils, keys, tweezers. I think my arthritis is getting worse, I seem to fumble a lot of things and once they are on the bed I can't find them again.

Mum was airing her bed so I asked if I could put my bedding on the couch in the front room. She said 'if I must' in a tone which meant no way, so I've started piles of sheets, pillowcases and bed covers in my room (these are the ones I actually use not the ones mum is using to keep the drawers warm) plus the tool box and a pile of craft stuff. 

I wanted to get the mattress cover off, take it outside and sponge any marks (as well as giving it a good airing). Peeled it back from the sides of the mattress, moved anything still on top of it to underneath, rolled it up and heaved it over my shoulder. as I left the room it caught the bin which overturned and dumped the collected rubbish back on the floor. Outside I was struggling to balance the weight and get it over the line. Reached for the line and it snapped. It was broken several years ago so the mended knot had just come undone. I went forward as the line fell and part of the cover trailed in my soil pile.

Decided that is a job for another day, folded the cover up, put it on a chair and sat on it. Decided I might as well pot up the four courgettes and another eight pepper plants whilst I was there. 24 tomato and pepper plants went into their forever homes on Thursday and over 20 savoy cabbages, 10 lollo rosso and 5 spinach plants were potted on into the bottom halves of 2 l pop bottles. Brought a 4 foot plank of wood back in with me to lever the bed away from the walls.

I ate and have since swept and picked up all the bits (not sorted, just put in a small bag), moved the ebd base and mattress back against the walls, had a shower, moved the clean tray back, set up my CPAP machine and bedside light (all cleaned/ dusted), put the wooden tray in place (currently has pills, toiletries, first aid, pens, pencils, scissors, diary address book plus all the coins I found in various places) and have my sheet and pillows back in place. Tomorrow I'm going to sleep as long as I want (will probably wake at 5 am). Still no rain here, used all my snow melt water and tipped the water butt to gte the last dregs out today.

monnagran

Mothernerd, after a day like that, I certainly think a day in bed is called for.  It is officially a Day of Rest, so have one.

I am also having a day off, apart from phoning, or being phoned by, my lovely old friend.  The sorting out of his flat will take weeks, the main problem being that it is a first floor flat with steep narrow stairs and a narrow twisting passageway from front to back.  There is simply nowhere to put anything.  Even if I manage to get something down the stairs, the door at the bottom opens out on to the High Street, so no hope of leaving anything there.

It is a nightmare, my friends.

It is Father's Day today, the 10th anniversary of my dear old Dad's death.  I think of him every day, but particularly today.  He would have been 107 had he lived, and probably as funny and stubborn as ever.

On that joyful note I will wish you all a happy day and leave you with a .........

THOUGHT FOR SUNDAY 

When our wagon gets stuck in the mud,  God is much more likely to assist the person who gets out to push, than the one who merely raises his voice in prayer  -  no matter how eloquent the oration.